Abstrakt
EEG neurofeedback research is a very vibrant field. Ongoing discussion about effects of this activity when applied as a form of treatment for various symptoms is polarizing the researchers' and practitioners' communities.
Yet not many aspects of the whole process have been explored and systematically described. Vast majority of the research circles around the efficacy of the long-term neurofeedback training, conceptualizing neurofeedback as a form of therapy or treatment.
Most researchers head straight towards the ultimate goal of understanding the beneficiary effects of the neurofeedback frequently ignoring the apparent lack of understanding of basic underlying mechanisms of the neurofeedback in its numerous modifications. The experience of the subject of this process lays unattended or dismissed as hard to capture, irrelevant to neurofeedback outcomes or too individual.
Our research thus aims to explore these frequently overlooked corners of the whole problematic. This presentation explains our research questions, methodological standing point and several crucial concepts such as short-term neurofeedback, neurofeedback game controls or neurofeedback game goals, concepts developed on our way towards more comprehensive neurofeedback theory.