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  • Biomedical Engineering

Background:

  • Neurofeedback aims to translate brain activity into sensory feedback.
  • Decoding complex mental states like mindfulness from brain signals is challenging.
  • Magnetoencephalography (MEG) offers high temporal and spatial resolution for brain activity measurement.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To develop and evaluate novel methods for decoding mindfulness states from ongoing brain activity using MEG.
  • To discriminate between mindfulness meditation and mind-wandering states.
  • To explore the potential of these decoding methods for real-time neurofeedback applications.

Main Methods:

  • Acquisition of MEG data during mindfulness meditation and thought-inducing tasks.
  • Novel real-time feature extraction using MEG power spectra and functional connectivity of independent components.
  • Subject-level classification accuracy assessment to differentiate between states.

Main Results:

  • Classification accuracy for discriminating mindfulness from thought-wandering tasks was around 60%, significantly above chance (50%).
  • Both spectral and connectivity-based features showed similar discriminatory power, with connectivity slightly outperforming spectral features in some instances.
  • Classification models demonstrated high individual specificity, with poor performance when transferred across subjects.

Conclusions:

  • Discriminating between mindfulness and mind-wandering states using machine learning on MEG data is feasible, albeit with subject-specific limitations.
  • Developed spectral and connectivity-based decoding methods show potential for real-time neurofeedback.
  • These methods could form the basis for enhanced, individualized mindfulness training systems.