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Effects of the EEG-neurofeedback on Cognitive Function

NCT05694377 · Status: UNKNOWN · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 60

Last updated 2023-01-23

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Summary

Executive function play a key role in boosting human behavioural performance. Based on scientific literature, it is still controversial whether electroencephalography-based neurofeedback (EEG-NFB) represents an effective technique for enhancing healthy adults' executive function. This study evaluates generalized effects of 3-week EEG-NFB training, using self-regulation of the theta to beta wave ratio (TBR), on executive function in healthy adults. The subjects are an uniform group of healthy young right-handed males divided into two equal groups. The trained group (TR) performs 3-week EEG-NFB training (three sessions per week) focused on a cognitive self-regulation of TBR (to achieve the lower TBR values as beneficial cognitive effect), while the control group (CO) does not participate in the EEG-NFB training. Cognitive function are rated before and after 3-week EEG-NFB training by psychological tests: Trail Making Test (TMT, parts A and B) and the Stroop Test (ST, parts I and II). This project is important for the future development of effective EEG-NFB protocols to be used by healthy people to improve their behavioural performance.

Conditions

  • Cognitive Function
  • Executive Function

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

electroencephalography-based neurofeedback (EEG-NFB)

The EEG-NFB training program will involve nine training sessions (three times a week over a 3-week period) each lasting 30 min. EEG-NFB training will be conducted with ProComp Infiniti Encoder and BioGraph Infiniti Software v.5.1.3. The training protocol will be set to decrease the EEG TBR value. For the 12 training sessions, all participants will be subjected the same EEG-NFB protocol at C3 electrode. The EEG-NFB training sessions consists of a 20-s baseline period (i.e., with no feedback), 30-min feedback presentation, and another 20-s baseline period. Subjects will be seated in front of a computer screen and animations will be used as feedback; the animation starts when the subject is sufficiently focused for 20 s. Three 10-min animations (flying duck, roller coaster ride, and moving ball) will be shown to the subject during each EEG-NFB training session. The raw EEG signal, TBR value over time, EEG signal noise, and EEG theta and beta wave amplitudes will be recorded.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Wroclaw University of Health and Sport Sciences

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Malgorzata Slowinska-Lisowska · Wroclaw University of Health and Sport Sciences

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
HEALTH_SERVICES_RESEARCH
Masking
SINGLE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
20 Years
Max Age
25 Years
Sex
MALE
Healthy Volunteers
Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2019-02-01
Primary Completion
2020-04-01
Completion
2023-04-30

Countries

  • Poland

Study Locations

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