Manipulating motor performance and memory through real-time fMRI neurofeedback

Biological Psychology

Volumn 108, Issue , 2015, Pages 85-97

  Scharnowski, Frank ^a,b   Veit, Ralf ^c   Zopf, Regine ^d   Studer, Petra ^e   Bock, Simon ^f   Diedrichsen, Jörn ^g   Goebel, Rainer ^h,i   Mathiak, Klaus ^j   Birbaumer, Niels ^c,k   Weiskopf, Nikolaus ^l  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

^b EPFL   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^d MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^e UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ERLANGEN   (Germany)

^f Stuttgart Hospital   (Germany)

^g UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^h MAASTRICHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

ⁱ NETHERLANDS INSTITUTE FOR NEUROSCIENCE   (Netherlands)

^j RWTH AACHEN UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^k SAN CAMILLO FORLANINI HOSPITAL   (Italy)

^l UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

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Author keywords

Brain imaging; Brain training; Functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI); Memory; Motor performance; Neurofeedback; Real time fMRI; Self regulation

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AROUSAL; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; AUTOREGULATION; BRAIN FUNCTION; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LEARNING; MALE; MEMORY CONSOLIDATION; MENTAL PERFORMANCE; MOTIVATION; MOTOR CONTROL; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; NEUROFEEDBACK; NEUROMODULATION; NORMAL HUMAN; PARAHIPPOCAMPAL CORTEX; PARAHIPPOCAMPAL GYRUS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPONSE TIME; SUPPLEMENTARY MOTOR AREA; TASK PERFORMANCE; TRAINING; BRAIN; HIPPOCAMPUS; MEMORY; MOTOR CORTEX; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHYSIOLOGY; PROCEDURES; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; REACTION TIME; YOUNG ADULT;

ADULT; ATTENTION; BRAIN; FEMALE; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMANS; LEARNING; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MEMORY; MOTOR CORTEX; NEUROFEEDBACK; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; REACTION TIME; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84927168246     PISSN: 03010511     EISSN: 18736246     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.biopsycho.2015.03.009     Document Type: Article

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