Experiencing your brain: Neurofeedback as a new bridge between neuroscience and phenomenology

Frontiers in Human Neuroscience

Volumn , Issue OCT, 2013, Pages

  Bagdasaryan, Juliana ^a,b   Le Van Quyen, Michel ^a,b  

^a INSTITUT DU CERVEAU ET DE LA MOELLE ÉPINIÈRE   (France)

^b SORBONNE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

Author keywords

Downward causation; Multiscale neural dynamics; Neurofeedback; Neurophenomenology; Voluntary action

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATTENTION DEFICIT DISORDER; AUTOREGULATION; BOLD SIGNAL; BRAIN COMPUTER INTERFACE; COGNITION; DEPRESSION; EPILEPSY; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; INTROSPECTION; LOCKED IN SYNDROME; NEUROFEEDBACK; NEUROMODULATION; NEUROSCIENCE; PERSONAL EXPERIENCE; PERSONALITY; PHENOMENOLOGY; SCHIZOPHRENIA; SELF CONCEPT; SELF CONTROL; SELF EVALUATION; SENSORY FEEDBACK;

EID: 84888121141     PISSN: 16625161     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fnhum.2013.00680     Document Type: Article

References (74)

1. Anastassiou, C. A., Perin, R., Markram, H., and Koch, C. (2011). Ephaptic coupling of cortical neurons. Nat. Neurosci. 14, 217-223. doi: 10.1038/nn.2727
2. Birbaumer, N., and Cohen, L. G. (2007). Brain-computer interfaces: communication and restoration of movement in paralysis. J. Physiol. 579, 621-636. doi: 10.1113/jphysiol. 2006.125633
3. Birbaumer, N., Ruiz, S., and Sitaram, R. (2013). Learned regulation of brain metabolism. Trends Cogn. Sci. 17, 295-302. doi: 10.1016/j.tics.2013.04.009
4. Buschman, T. J., and Miller, E. K. (2007). Top-down versus bottom-up control of attention in the prefrontal and posterior parietal cortices. Science 315, 1860-1862. doi: 10.1126/science.1138071
5. Buzsáki, G., Anastassiou, C. A., and Koch, C. (2012). The origin of extracellular fields and currents - EEG, ECoG, LFP and spikes. Nat. Rev. Neurosci. 13, 407-420. doi: 10.1038/nrn3241
6. Buzsaki, G., and Draguhn, A. (2004). Neuronal oscillations in cortical networks. Science 304, 1926-1929. doi: 10.1126/science.1099745
7. Campbell, D. T. (1974). Downward causation in hierarchically organized biological systems, in Studies in the Philosophy of Biology, eds F. J. Ayala and T. Dobzhansky (London: MacMillan), 179-186.
8. Canolty, R. T., Edwards, E., Dalal, S. S., Soltani, M., Nagarajan, S. S., Kirsch, H. E., et al. (2006). High gamma power is phase-locked to theta oscillations in human neocortex. Science 313, 1626-1628. doi: 10.1126/science.1128115
9. Canolty, R. T., Ganguly, K., Kennerley, S. W., Cadieu, C. F., Koepsell, K., Wallis, J. D., et al. (2010). Oscillatory phase coupling coordinates anatomically dispersed functional cell assemblies. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 107, 17356-17361. doi: 10.1073/pnas.1008306107
10. Cerf, M., Thiruvengadam, N., Mormann, F., Kraskov, A., Quiroga, R. Q., Koch, C., et al. (2010). Online, voluntary control of human temporal lobe neurons. Nature 467, 1104-1108. doi: 10.1038/nature 09510
11. Chalmers, D. J. (1995). Facing up to the problem of consciousness. J. Conscious. Stud. 2, 200-219.
12. Christoff, K., Cosmelli, D., Legrand, D., and Thompson, E. (2011). Specifying the self for cognitive neuroscience. Trends Cogn. Sci. 15, 104-112. doi: 10.1016/j.tics.2011.01.001
13. deCharms, R. C. (2008). Applications of real-time fMRI. Nat. Rev. Neurosci. 9, 720-729. doi: 10.1038/nrn2414
14. deCharms, R. C., Maeda, F., Glover, G. H., Ludlow, D., Pauly, J. M., Soneji, D., et al. (2005). Control over brain activation and pain learned by using real-time functional MRI. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 102, 18626-18631. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0505210102
15. Deco, G., and Thiele, A. (2011). Cholinergic control of cortical network interactions enables feedbackmediated attentional modulation. Eur. J. Neurosci. 34, 146-157. doi: 10.1111/j.1460-9568.2011.07749.x
16. Depraz, N., Varela, F. J., and Vermersch, P. (2003). On Becoming Aware. Amsterdam: John Benjamins Press.
17. Engel, A., Fries, P., and Singer, W. (2001). Dynamic predictions: oscillations and synchrony in top-down processing. Nat. Rev. Neurosci. 2, 704-716. doi: 10.1038/35094565
18. Engelhard, B., Ozeri, N., Israel, Z., Bergman, H., and Vaadia, E. (2013). Inducing gamma oscillations and precise spike synchrony by operant conditioning via brainmachine interface. Neuron 77, 361-375. doi: 10.1016/j.neuron.2012.11. 015
19. Evans, J. R. (2007). Handbook of Neurofeedback. New York: The Hayworth Medical Press.
20. Fetz, E. E. (1969). Operant conditioning of cortical unit activity. Science 163, 955-958. doi: 10.1126/science.163. 3870.955
21. Fetz, E. E. (2007). Volitional control of neural activity: implications for brain-computer interfaces. J. Physiol. 579, 571-579. doi: 10.1113/jphysiol.2006.127142
22. Fried, I., MacDonald, K. A., and Wilson, C. L. (1997). Single neuron activity in human hippocampus, and amygdala during recognition of faces, and objects. Neuron 18, 753-765. doi: 10.1016/S0896-6273(00) 80315-3
23. Fries, P. (2005). A mechanism for cognitive dynamics: neuronal communication through neuronal coherence. Trends Cogn. Sci. 9, 474-480. doi: 10.1016/j.tics.2005.08.011
24. Fröhlich, F., and McCormick, D. A. (2010). Endogenous electric fields may guide neocortical network activity. Neuron 67, 129-143. doi: 10.1016/j.neuron.2010.06.005
25. Garrison, K., Santoyo, J., Davis, J., Thornhill, T., Kerr, C., and Brewer, J. (2013). Effortless awareness: using real time neurofeedback to investigate correlates of posterior cingulate cortex activity in meditators' selfreport. Front. Hum. Neurosci. 7:440. doi: 10.3389/fnhum.2013.00440
26. Gevensleben, H., Holl, B., Albrecht, B., Schlamp, D., Kratz, O., Studer, P., et al. (2009). Distinct EEG effects related to neurofeedback training in children with ADHD: a randomized controlled trial. Int. J. Psychophysiol. 74, 149-157. doi: 10.1016/j.ijpsycho.2009.08.005
27. Haggard, P., Clark, S., and Kalogeras, J. (2002). Voluntary action and conscious awareness. Nat. Neurosci. 5, 382-385. doi: 10.1038/nn827
28. Hanslmayr, S., Sauseng, P., Doppelmayr, M., Schabus, M., and Klimesch, W. (2005). Increasing individual upper alpha power by neurofeedback improves cognitive performance in human subjects. Appl. Psychophysiol. Biofeedback 30, 1-10. doi: 10.1007/s10484-005-2169-8
29. Hobson, A. (2009). The neurobiology of consciousness: lucid dreaming wakes up. Int. J. Dream Res. 2, 41-44.
30. Jackson, A., and Fetz, E. E. (2011). Interfacing with the computational brain. IEEE Trans. Neural Syst. Rehabil. Eng. 19, 534-541. doi: 10.1109/TNSRE.2011.2158586
31. Jensen, O., and Colgin, L. L. (2007). Cross-frequency coupling between neuronal oscillations. Trends Cogn. Sci. 11, 267-269. doi: 10.1016/j.tics.2007.05.003
32. Johnston, S. J., Boehm, S. G., Healy, D., Goebel, R., and Linden, D. E. J. (2010). Neurofeedback: a promising tool for the self-regulation of emotion networks. Neuroimage 49, 1066-1072. doi: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2009.07.056
33. Keizer, A. W., Verment, R. S., and Hommel, B. (2010a). Enhancing cognitive control through neurofeedback: a role of gamma-band activity in managing episodic retrieval. Neuroimage 49, 3404-3413. doi: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2009.11.023
34. Keizer, A. W., Verschoor, M., Verment, R. S., and Hommel, B. (2010b). The effect of gamma enhancing neurofeedback on the control of feature bindings and intelligence measures. Int. J. Psychophysiol. 75, 25-32. doi: 10.1016/j.ijpsycho.2009.10.011
35. Knight, R. T. (2007). Neural networks debunk phrenology. Science 316, 1578. doi: 10.1126/science.1139140
36. Koralek, A. C., Jin, X., Long, J. D. II, Costa, R. M., and Carmena, J. M. (2012). Corticostriatal plasticity is necessary for learning intentional neuroprosthetic skills. Nature 483, 331-335. doi: 10.1038/nature10845
37. Kotchoubey, B., Strehl, U., Uhlmann, C., Holzapfel, S., König, M., Fröscher, W., et al. (2001). Modification of slow cortical potentials in patients with refractory epilepsy: a controlled outcome study. Epilepsia 42, 406-416. doi: 10.1046/j.1528-1157.2001.22200.x
38. Kouijzer, M. E. J., van Schie, H. T., de Moor, J. M. H., Gerrits, B. J. L., and Buitelaar, J. K. (2010). Neurofeedback treatment in autism. Preliminary findings in behavioral, cognitive, and neurophysiological functioning. Res. Autism Spectr. Disord. 4, 386-399. doi: 10.1016/j.rasd.2009.10.007
39. Lachaux, J.-P., Jerbi, K., Bertrand, O., Minotti, L., Hoffmann, D., Schoendorff, B., et al. (2007). A blueprint for real-time functional mapping via human intracranial recordings. PLoS ONE 2:e1094. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0001094
40. Lachaux, J. P., Rudrauf, D., and Kahane, P. (2003). Intracranial EEG and human brain mapping. J. Physiol. Paris 97, 613-628. doi: 10.1016/j.jphysparis.2004.01.018
41. Lakatos, P., Karmos, G., Mehta, A. D., Ulbert, I., and Schroeder, C. E. (2008). Entrainment of neuronal oscillations as a mechanism of attentional selection. Science 320, 110-113. doi: 10.1126/science. 1154735
42. Le Van Quyen, M. (2003). Disentangling the dynamic core: a research program for neurodynamics at the large scale. Biol. Res. 36, 67-88. doi: 10.4067/S0716-9760200300010 0006
43. Le Van Quyen, M. (2011). The brainweb of cross-scale interactions. New Ideas Psychol. 29, 57-63. doi: 10.1016/j.newideapsych.2010.11.001
44. Le Van Quyen, M., and Petitmengin, C. (2002). Neuronal dynamics and conscious experience: an example of reciprocal causation before epileptic seizures. Phenomenol. Cogn. Sci. 1, 169-180. doi: 10.1023/A:1020364003336
45. Le Van Quyen, M., Staba, R., Bragin, A., Dickson, C., Valderrama, M., Fried, I., et al. (2010). Large-scale microelectrode recordings of high frequency gamma oscillations in human cortex during sleep. J Neurosci. 30, 7770-7782. doi: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.5049-09.2010
46. Libet, B., Gleason, C. A., Wright, E. W., and Pearl, D. K. (1983). Time of conscious intention to act in relation to onset of cerebral activity (readiness-potential). The unconscious initiation of a freely voluntary act. Brain 106(Pt 3), 623-642. doi: 10.1093/brain/106.3.623
47. Lutz, A., Lachaux, J.-P., Martinerie, J., and Varela, F. J. (2002). Guiding the study of brain dynamics by using first-person data: synchrony patterns correlate with ongoing conscious states during a simple visual task. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 99, 1586-1591. doi: 10.1073/pnas.032658199
48. Lutz, A., and Thompson, E. (2003). Neurophenomenology integrating subjective experience and brain dynamics in the neuroscience of consciousness. J. Conscious. Stud. 10, 9-10.
49. Nagai, Y. (2011). Biofeedback and epilepsy. Curr. Neurol. Neurosci. Rep. 11, 443-450. doi: 10.1007/s11910011-0201-3
50. Nestler, E. J., Barrot, M., DiLeone, R. J., Eisch, A. J., Gold, S. J., and Monteggia, L. M. (2002). Neurobiology of depression. Neuron 34, 13-25. doi: 10.1016/S0896-6273(02)00653-0
51. Panksepp, J., and Solms, M. (2012). What is neuropsychoanalysis? Clinically relevant studies of the minded brain. Trends Cogn. Sci. 16, 6-8. doi: 10.1016/j.tics.2011.11.005
52. Penttonen, M., and Buzsaki, G. (2003). Natural logarithmic relationship between brain oscillators. Thalamus Relat. Syst. 2, 145-152. doi: 10.1017/S1472928803000074
53. Petitmengin, C., and Lachaux, J.-P. (2013). Microcognitive science: bridging experiential and neuronal microdynamics. Front. Hum. Neurosci. 7:617. doi: 10.3389/fnhum.2013.00617
54. Petitmengin, C., Navarro, V., and Le Van Quyen, M. (2007). Anticipating seizure: pre-reflective experience at the center of neuro-phenomenology. Conscious. Cogn. 16, 746-764. doi: 10.1016/j.concog.2007.05.006
55. Roelfsema, P. R. (2011). Attentionvoluntary control of brain cells. Science 332, 1512-1513. doi: 10.1126/science.1208564
56. Rutishauser, U., Ross, I. B., Mamelak, A. N., and Schuman, E. M. (2010). Human memory strength is predicted by theta-frequency phase-locking of single neurons. Nature 464, 903-907. doi: 10.1038/nature08860
57. Sarter, M., Givens, B., and Bruno, J. P. (2001). The cognitive neuroscience of sustained attention: where top-down meets bottom-up. Brain Res. Rev. 35, 146-160. doi: 10.1016/S01650173(01)00044-3
58. Scharnowski, F., Hutton, C., Josephs, O., Weiskopf, N., and Rees, G. (2012). Improving visual perception through neurofeedback. J. Neurosci. 32, 17830-17841. doi: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.6334-11.2012
59. Seitz, A. R. (2013). Cognitive neuroscience: targeting neuroplasticity with neural decoding and biofeedback. Curr. Biol. 23, R210-R212. doi: 10.1016/j.cub.2013.01.015
60. Shibata, K., Watanabe, T., Sasaki, Y., and Kawato, M. (2011). Perceptual learning incepted by decoded fMRI neurofeedback without stimulus presentation. Science 334, 1413-1415. doi: 10.1126/science. 1212003
61. Subramanian, L., Hindle, J. V., Johnston, S., Roberts, M. V., Husain, M., Goebel, R., et al. (2011). Real-time functional magnetic resonance imaging neurofeedback for treatment of Parkinson's disease. J. Neurosci. 31, 16309-16317. doi: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.3498-11.2011
62. Sulzer, J., Haller, S., Scharnowski, F., Weiskopf, N., Birbaumer, N., Blefari, M. L., et al. (2013a). Real-time fMRI neurofeedback: progress and challenges. Neuroimage 76, 386-399. doi: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2013.03. 033
63. Sulzer, J., Sitaram, R., Blefari, M. L., Kollias, S., Birbaumer, N., Stephan, K. E., et al. (2013b). Neurofeedbackmediated self-regulation of the dopaminergic midbrain. Neuroimage 75, 176-184. doi: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2013.02.041
64. Thompson, E., and Varela, F. J. (2001). Radical embodiment: neural dynamics and consciousness. Trends Cogn. Sci. 5, 418-425. doi: 10.1016/S13646613(00)01750-2
65. Uhlhaas, P. J., Haenschel, C., Nikolić, D., and Singer, W. (2008). The role of oscillations and synchrony in cortical networks and their putative relevance for the pathophysiology of schizophrenia. Schizophr. Bull. 34, 927-943. doi: 10.1093/schbul/sbn062
66. Uhlhaas, P. J., and Singer, W. (2006). Neural synchrony in brain disorders: relevance for cognitive dysfunctions and pathophysiology. Neuron 52, 155-168. doi: 10.1016/j.neuron.2006.09.020
67. Uhlhaas, P. J., and Singer, W. (2010). Abnormal neural oscillations and synchrony in schizophrenia. Nat. Rev. Neurosci. 11, 100-113. doi: 10.1038/nrn2774
68. Varela, F., Lachaux, J. P., Rodriguez, E., and Martinerie, J. (2001). The brainweb: phase synchronization and large-scale integration. Nat. Rev. Neurosci. 2, 229-239. doi: 10.1038/35067550
69. Varela, F. J. (1995). Resonant cell assemblies: a new approach to cognitive functions and neuronal synchrony. Biol. Res. 28, 81-95.
70. Varela, F. J. (1996). Neurophenomenology: a methodological remedy for the hard problem. J. Conscious. Stud. 3, 330-349.
71. Varela, F. J., Thompson, E. T., and Rosch, E. (1991). The Embodied Mind: Cognitive Science and Human Experience. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press.
72. Wolpaw, J. R., Birbaumer, N., McFarland, D. J., Pfurtscheller, G., and Vaughan, T. M. (2002). Braincomputer interfaces for communication and control. Clin. Neurophysiol. 113, 767-791. doi: 10.1016/S13882457(02)00057-3
73. Womelsdorf, T., Schoffelen, J. M., Oostenveld, R., Singer, W., Desimone, R., Engel, A. K., et al. (2007). Modulation of neuronal interactions through neuronal synchronization. Science 316, 1609-1612. doi: 10.1126/science.1139597
74. Zoefel, B., Huster, R. J., and Herrmann, C. S. (2011). Neurofeedback training of the upper alpha frequency band in EEG improves cognitive performance. Neuroimage 54, 1427-1431. doi: 10.1016/j.image.2010.08.078