Training efficiency and transfer success in an extended real-time functional MRI neurofeedback training of the somatomotor cortex of healthy subjects

Frontiers in Human Neuroscience

Volumn 9, Issue OCT, 2015, Pages

  Auer, Tibor ^a,b   Schweizer, Renate ^b   Frahm, Jens ^b  

^a MRC COGNITION AND BRAIN SCIENCES UNIT   (United Kingdom)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR BIOPHYSICAL CHEMISTRY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Human; Motor cortex; Neurofeedback; Real time fMRI; Somatosensory cortex

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUTOREGULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; FEMALE; FINGER; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HAND; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGERY; MALE; MOTOR CORTEX; MOTOR IMAGERY; NEUROFEEDBACK; NORMAL HUMAN; PREDICTION; SENSORY CORTEX; SOMATOMOTOR CORTEX; TASK PERFORMANCE; TRAINING; TRAINING EFFIENCY; TRANSFER SUCCESS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84944455675     PISSN: 16625161     EISSN: 16625161     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fnhum.2015.00547     Document Type: Article

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