The time-course of alpha neurofeedback training effects in healthy participants

Biological Psychology

Volumn 95, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 70-73

  Dekker, Marian K J ^a,b   Sitskoorn, Margriet M ^a   Denissen, Ad J M ^b   Van Boxtel, Geert J M ^a  

^a TILBURG UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b PHILIPS RESEARCH LABORATORIES   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Healthy participants; Lower alpha activity; Neurofeedback training (NFT); Upper alpha activity

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ALPHA RHYTHM; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; BRAIN FUNCTION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LEARNING; MALE; MOTIVATION; NEUROFEEDBACK; NEUROFEEDBACK TRAINING; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TIME;

HEALTHY PARTICIPANTS; LOWER ALPHA ACTIVITY; NEUROFEEDBACK TRAINING (NFT); UPPER ALPHA ACTIVITY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ALPHA RHYTHM; BRAIN; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; NEUROFEEDBACK; TIME FACTORS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84892535317     PISSN: 03010511     EISSN: 18736246     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.biopsycho.2013.11.014     Document Type: Article

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