Covert neurofeedback without awareness shapes cortical network spontaneous connectivity

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 113, Issue 17, 2016, Pages E2413-E2420

  Ramot, Michal ^a   Grossman, Shany ^a   Friedman, Doron ^b   Malach, Rafael ^a  

^a WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (Israel)

^b INTERDISCIPLINARY CENTER   (Israel)

Author keywords

Functional connectivity; Neurofeedback; Reward; Spontaneous activity; Training

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AWARENESS; BEHAVIOR; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; BRAIN REGION; CONNECTOME; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LEARNING; MALE; NEGATIVE FEEDBACK; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NEUROFEEDBACK; NORMAL HUMAN; POSITIVE FEEDBACK; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REST; REWARD; VISUAL CORTEX; ALGORITHM; FUNCTIONAL NEUROIMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHYSIOLOGY; YOUNG ADULT;

ADULT; ALGORITHMS; AWARENESS; BRAIN; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL NEUROIMAGING; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; NERVE NET; NEUROFEEDBACK; REWARD; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84964782082     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1516857113     Document Type: Article

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