EEG Communication between Two using Neurofeedback Training

2014 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 25560430
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Challenging Exploratory Research
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Research Field: Basic / Social brain science
• Research Institution: Hokkaido University
• Principal Investigator: IIZUKA Hiroyuki 北海道大学, 情報科学研究科, 准教授 (30396832)
• Project Period (FY): 2013-04-01 – 2015-03-31
• Keywords: ニューロフィードバック / コミュニケーション / 脳波

Outline of Final Research Achievements

Neurofeedback Training (NFT) is a training to regulate brain activities with visual or sound feedback of their own brain activities to subjects. This study extends the conventional NFT to bilateral NFT between two where the brain waves are communicated directly and used as the feedback. In the experiments, the powers of alpha waves of EEG are displayed as a visual feedback. Our results show that alpha power of subjects’ EEG can be enhanced in the bilateral NFT and that the subjects who can successfully enhance the alpha power is also able to regulate the alpha in the conventional individual NFT.

Free Research Field

人間情報工学