MIT News December 4, 2019
In a new study, the researchers found that people can enhance their attention by controlling their own alpha brain waves based on neurofeedback they receive as they perform a task. They found that when subjects learned to suppress alpha waves in one hemisphere of their parietal cortex, they were able to pay better attention to objects that appeared on the opposite side of their visual field. This suggests that it may be possible for people to learn to improve their attention through neurofeedback. There’s a lot of interest in using neurofeedback to try to help people with various brain disorders and behavioral problems…read more. TECHNICAL ARTICLE
MIT neuroscientists have shown that people can enhance their attention by using neurofeedback to decrease alpha waves in one side of the parietal cortex. Image: Yasaman Baghezadeh