The autotelic involvement of attention induced by EEG neurofeedback training improves the performance of an athlete’s mind

Mikicin, Mirosław

doi:10.1515/bhk-2015-0010

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“…The most common protocol found related to attention improvement was beta (12–15 Hz, 13–20 Hz, 15–18 Hz) up-regulation alongside theta (4–8 Hz) down-regulation or suppression in the central region (Gadea et al, 2016; Maszczyk et al, 2020; Mehran et al, 2015; Mikicin, 2015; Mikicin et al, 2015; Studer et al, 2014). The second most common protocol found was alpha power up-regulation (8–12 Hz) considering modulation on high (10–12 Hz) and low alpha (8–10 Hz) mostly in the central region but also in the frontal and parietal regions (Dekker, van den Berg, et al, 2014; Navarro Gil et al, 2018).…”

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“…Researches related to cognitive performance improvement in athletes develop protocols for increasing attentional control, focus, relaxation, and sleep quality (Dekker, van den Berg, et al, 2014;Jeunet et al, 2020;Mirifar et al, 2017;Rijken et al, 2016). Furthermore, processing speed, effectiveness, and work accuracy are also variables of enhancement on athletes (Mikicin et al, 2015(Mikicin et al, , 2020.…”

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Neurofeedback training for cognitive performance improvement in healthy subjects: A systematic review.

Silva¹,

Souza²

2021

Psychology & Neuroscience

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Background: Neurofeedback (NFB) is a technique based on the principle of operant conditioning. It consists of modeling brain activity patterns to those considered to be deleterious to the organism to improve cognitive performance. Objective: This systematic review aims to present the neurofeedback field overview and results of empirical studies that tested the effects of neurofeedback training on cognitive performance in healthy subjects. Method: A systematic review of neurofeedback studies to increase cognitive performance in healthy subjects available on the Web of Science, BVSalud, PsycINFO, Redalyc, and Scielo databases, published between 2014 and 2020, was carried out. Initially, 192 articles were localized, of which 47 articles were included in order to present the general field overview, 34 empirical studies were included to discuss protocols and outcomes, and 18 trials were included to describe between-subjects effect size. Results: A contemporary trend toward the use of neurofeedback as a tool to improve cognition besides rehabilitation in healthy young adults, older adults, athletes, and the elderly was observed. Neurofeedback training had a large effect on working memory (WM), mood, and sleep quality; a medium to large effect on executive functions; a general medium effect size alongside a wider variation from low to large effect on attention. Conclusions: Although neurofeedback training studies showed promising results, not all studies found significant changes in electroencephalogram (EEG) signals that seemed to be linked to behavioral tests. This raises the question of causality relation between changes in brain activity and behavioral outcomes. Public Significance StatementThe present study provides a systematic review of researches that tested the effects of neurofeedback training on cognitive performance in healthy subjects. There is a fertile contemporary trend toward the use of neurofeedback as a tool to improve cognition besides rehabilitation. Neurofeedback training has shown to be a useful technique to modulate brain activity as well as improve attention, working memory, mood, executive functions and sleep quality.

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Neurofeedback training for cognitive performance improvement in healthy subjects: A systematic review.

Silva¹,

Souza²

2021

Psychology & Neuroscience

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“…Nonetheless, the NF procedure was not associated with any clear modifications of neurophysiological patterns. Following this study, several other NF experiments have been led in the aim of enhancing athletes' performance in different sports including golf 11,12 , swimming 13 , dance 14,15 or athletics 16 . Mirifar et al 3 provided a systematic review of these NF studies.…”

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Uncovering EEG Correlates of Covert Attention in Soccer Goalkeepers: Towards Innovative Sport Training Procedures

Jeunet

Tonin

Albert³

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Advances in sports sciences and neurosciences offer new opportunities to design efficient and motivating sport training tools. For instance, using NeuroFeedback (NF), athletes can learn to selfregulate specific brain rhythms and consequently improve their performances. Here, we focused on soccer goalkeepers' Covert Visual Spatial Attention (CVSA) abilities, which are essential for these athletes to reach high performances. We looked for Electroencephalography (EEG) markers of CVSA usable for virtual reality-based NF training procedures, i.e., markers that comply with the following criteria: (1) specific to CVSA, (2) detectable in real-time and (3) related to goalkeepers' performance/ expertise. Our results revealed that the best-known EEG marker of CVSA-increased α-power ipsilateral to the attended hemi-field-was not usable since it did not comply with criteria 2 and 3. Nonetheless, we highlighted a significant positive correlation between athletes' improvement in CVSA abilities and the increase of their α-power at rest. While the specificity of this marker remains to be demonstrated, it complied with both criteria 2 and 3. This result suggests that it may be possible to design innovative ecological training procedures for goalkeepers, for instance using a combination of NF and cognitive tasks performed in virtual reality.

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“…Moreover, the experimenter's bias was controlled in our research, because the preand post-training cognitive performance can be assessed by experimenters. In recent years, Mikicin, (2015) similarly proved the specificity of EEG-NFB frequency on behavioural changes; Kober et al, (2015) disclosed different cognitive influences for participants trained to increase the amplitude of frequencies.…”

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Computer-Aided Cognitive Training Based on Electroencephalography-Neurofeedback for English Learning*

2018

EDUC SCI-THEOR PRACT

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This paper aims to disclose the effect of cognitive training on English learning. For this purpose, the author reviews the existing computer-aided cognitive-training programs, and developed a targeted cognitive-training approach based on electroencephalography (EEG)-neurofeedback (NFB). Then the approach was applied to a randomized controlled test on the cognition and perception of English learners. The experimental results show that the participants in the test group witnessed significant progress in English learning skills and communicative competence, and post-NFB alpha magnitude could increase independent of NFB conditions. The research findings provide new insights into the application of cognitive training based on NFB-EEG.

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The autotelic involvement of attention induced by EEG neurofeedback training improves the performance of an athlete’s mind

Cited by 9 publications

References 34 publications

Neurofeedback training for cognitive performance improvement in healthy subjects: A systematic review.

Neurofeedback training for cognitive performance improvement in healthy subjects: A systematic review.

Uncovering EEG Correlates of Covert Attention in Soccer Goalkeepers: Towards Innovative Sport Training Procedures

Computer-Aided Cognitive Training Based on Electroencephalography-Neurofeedback for English Learning*

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