Alpha Neurofeedback Study Adds, Improved Visual Working Memory , to List of Benefits.<br />The results of a recent study suggest <br />that neurofeedback training can improve <br />a person's visual working memory.<br />'PsyPost' reports that biofeedback training <br />is a form of therapy that uses real-time <br />monitoring of various physiological functions. .<br />The goal is to help an individual consciously control <br />these processes that include heart rate, muscle<br />tension and even brainwave activity.<br />Generally, the technique is applied to bodily <br />processes that a person is unaware of with <br />their consciously-available senses.<br />In order to reduce anxiety, improve focus or a sense <br />of well-being, alpha neurofeedback training helps an <br />individual learn to control their alpha brainwave activity. .<br />Alpha brainwaves are associated <br />with a relaxed meditative state, <br />when the brain is calm yet alert.<br />Study author Wenbin Zhou and his colleagues <br />found that neurofeedback training could also <br />improve a person's visual working memory.<br />This is the cognitive system responsible for <br />storing and manipulating visual information <br />in order to perform problem-solving tasks. .<br />These results suggest that alpha <br />NF [neurofeedback] training <br />influences performance in <br />working memory tasks involved <br />in the visuospatial sketchpad, Study authors, via 'PsyPost'.<br />Notably, we demonstrated <br />that alpha NF training improves <br />the quantity and quality of <br />visual working memory, Study authors, via 'PsyPost'.<br />The results were published in the <br />journal 'NPJ Science of Learning.'
