Sonic EEG neurofeedback environment to train emotional self-regulation - Piloting mixed method approach to assessment of training effectivity, perceived control over the game and motivation induced during the first training session
Abstract
Three previously neurofeedback (NF) naive subjects underwent one session of new NF protocol designed for emotional self-regulation training. The continuous recordings of physiological indicators of momentary activation and training performance (EEG band relative powers) were used during the analysis of post-session interviews.
Our focus laid mainly in four areas: in how our subjects perceived control over the training environment, in their expectations towards neurofeedback aroused by the first training experience, in their insights into training mechanisms and in gathering their remarks and observations about the sonic environment fluency and training dynamics of our new protocol in development. Main objective of this study was to pilot the system of evaluation of a neurofeedback training performance through combination of various sources of data.
This paper presents one of possible approaches to application of mixed method methodology to the area of NF training - merging the standard ways of quantitative evaluation of performance (Gruzelier, 2014) with more recent neurophenomenological approach (Bockelman, Reinerman-Jones, Gallagher, 2013).