Biofeedback of Visual Evoked Potentials

Abstract

The present study investigated the operant conditioning of visual evoked potentials within a latency range between 200 and 600 ms using a visual discrimination task, and scrutinized whether biofeed-back-induced potential shifts covaried with behavioral responses (reaction time, RT). It could be demonstrated that subjects were able to modify their ERPs towards more or less positivity according to the instruction given. In addition, in could be shown that a biofeedback-induced greater positivity of the P300-complex was highly correlated with a decrease of reaction time. It is hypothesized that this could be due to a modification of P300-components reflecting information processing.