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Manipulating motor performance and memory through real-time fMRI neurofeedback

Scharnowski, F; Veit, R; Zopf, R; Studer, P; Bock, S; Diedrichsen, J; Goebel, R; ... Weiskopf, N; + view all (2015) Manipulating motor performance and memory through real-time fMRI neurofeedback. Biological Psychology , 108 pp. 85-97. 10.1016/j.biopsycho.2015.03.009. Green open access

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Abstract

Task performance depends on ongoing brain activity which can be influenced by attention, arousal, or motivation. However, such modulating factors of cognitive efficiency are unspecific, can be difficult to control, and are not suitable to facilitate neural processing in a regionally specific manner. Here, we non-pharmacologically manipulated regionally specific brain activity using technically sophisticated real-time fMRI neurofeedback. This was accomplished by training participants to simultaneously control ongoing brain activity in circumscribed motor and memory-related brain areas, namely the supplementary motor area and the parahippocampal cortex. We found that learned voluntary control over these functionally distinct brain areas caused functionally specific behavioral effects, i.e. shortening of motor reaction times and specific interference with memory encoding. The neurofeedback approach goes beyond improving cognitive efficiency by unspecific psychological factors such as attention, arousal, or motivation. It allows for directly manipulating sustained activity of task-relevant brain regions in order to yield specific behavioral or cognitive effects.

Type: Article
Title: Manipulating motor performance and memory through real-time fMRI neurofeedback
Location: Netherlands
Open access status: An open access version is available from UCL Discovery
DOI: 10.1016/j.biopsycho.2015.03.009
Publisher version: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.biopsycho.2015.03.009
Additional information: © 2015 The Authors. Published by Elsevier B.V. This is an open access article under the CC BY license(http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
Keywords: Brain imaging, Brain training, Functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), Memory, Motor performance, Neurofeedback, Real-time fMRI, Self-regulation
UCL classification: UCL
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Brain Sciences
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Brain Sciences > UCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Brain Sciences > UCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology > Imaging Neuroscience
URI: https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/1466816
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