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Frank Scharnowski1, Chloe Hutton, Oliver Josephs

  • 1Wellcome Trust Centre for Neuroimaging, UCL Institute of Neurology, and UCL Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, University College London, London WC1N 3AR, United Kingdom. frank.scharnowski@fil.ion.ucl.ac.uk

The Journal of Neuroscience : the Official Journal of the Society for Neuroscience
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Training spontaneous brain activity alone can enhance visual perception. This neurofeedback approach non-invasively improves sensitivity in specific brain regions without drugs or new tasks.

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Area of Science:

  • Neuroscience
  • Cognitive Science
  • Perception Research

Background:

  • Perception relies on both spontaneous and evoked neural activity.
  • The potential to train spontaneous activity for perceptual enhancement is unexplored.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate if training spontaneous brain activity alone can improve perceptual sensitivity.
  • To determine if real-time functional MRI-neurofeedback can achieve this enhancement.

Main Methods:

  • Human participants underwent neurofeedback training to control spontaneous activity in specific visual cortex regions.
  • Participants used real-time functional MRI (fMRI) to modulate activity in targeted retinotopic areas.
  • Post-training, visual detection tasks were administered in trained and untrained visual field locations.

Main Results:

  • Perceptual sensitivity significantly improved in the trained visual cortex region.
  • Enhancement was observed only when participants actively controlled their brain activity.
  • No enhancement was found in untrained visual areas or without active control.

Conclusions:

  • Spontaneous neural activity in sensory cortices can be trained to enhance perception.
  • Real-time fMRI-neurofeedback offers a non-invasive method for targeted brain training.
  • This technique shows promise for non-pharmacological perceptual enhancement.