A Further Study on Short Term Memory Improvement by Neurofeedback

Author

Nan, Wenya ; Rodrigues, Joao Pedro ; Wan, Feng ; Mak, Peng Un ; Mak, Pui In ; Vai, Mang I. ; Rosa, Agostinho

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Univ. of Macau, Macau, China

fYear

2012

fDate

28-30 May 2012

Firstpage

959

Lastpage

961

Abstract

Our previous study successfully improved short term memory by individual alpha neurofeedback training. However, short term memory and its improvement in different languages are still not clear. Therefore, the purpose of this paper was to evaluate the memory performance in alphabetic and ideographic language groups. Besides, the relationship between initial memory and its improvement was investigated. The results indicated short term memory in ideographic language was higher than those in alphabetic language and forward digit span improvement was positive related to its initial performance.

Keywords

brain models; electroencephalography; linguistics; neurophysiology; alpha neurofeedback training; alphabetic language group; forward digit span improvement; ideographic language group; memory performance; short term memory improvement; Correlation; Educational institutions; Electrodes; Electroencephalography; Neurofeedback; Noise measurement; Training; digit span; individual alpha frequency; neurofeedback; short term memory;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Biomedical Engineering and Biotechnology (iCBEB), 2012 International Conference on

Conference_Location

Macao

Print_ISBN

978-1-4577-1987-5

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/iCBEB.2012.25

Filename

6245281