%0 Journal Article
%T On the need to better specify the concept of ¡°control¡± in brain-computer-interfaces/neurofeedback research
%A Guilherme Wood
%A Silvia E. Kober
%A Matthias Witte
%A Christa Neuper
%J Frontiers in Systems Neuroscience
%D 2014
%I Frontiers Media
%R 10.3389/fnsys.2014.00171
%X Aiming at a better specification of the concept of ¡°control¡± in brain-computer-interfaces (BCI) and neurofeedback research, we propose to distinguish ¡°self-control of brain activity¡± from the broader concept of ¡°BCI control¡±, since the first describes a neurocognitive phenomenon and is only one of the many components of ¡°BCI control¡±. Based on this distinction, we developed a framework based on dual-processes theory that describes the cognitive determinants of self-control of brain activity as the interplay of automatic vs. controlled information processing. Further, we distinguish between cognitive processes that are necessary and sufficient to achieve a given level of self-control of brain activity and those which are not. We discuss that those cognitive processes which are not necessary for the learning process can hamper self-control because they cannot be completely turned-off at any time. This framework aims at a comprehensive description of the cognitive determinants of the acquisition of self-control of brain activity underlying those classes of BCI which require the user to achieve regulation of brain activity as well as neurofeedback learning.
%K BCI
%K Neurofeedback
%K executive functions
%K dual-process theory
%K rumination
%K meta-cognition
%K Cognitive Strategies
%U http://www.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fnsys.2014.00171/abstract