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Regulation of arousal via online neurofeedback improves human performance in a demanding sensory-motor task

Josef Faller, Jennifer Cummings, Sameer Saproo, and View ORCID ProfilePaul Sajda
PNAS March 26, 2019 116 (13) 6482-6490; first published March 12, 2019; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1817207116
Josef Faller
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  1. Edited by Richard M. Shiffrin, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN, and approved February 19, 2019 (received for review October 6, 2018)

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vol. 116 no. 13 6482-6490
DOI: 
https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1817207116
PubMed: 
30862731

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National Academy of Sciences
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0027-8424
Online ISSN: 
1091-6490
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  • Published in issue March 26, 2019.
  • Published first March 12, 2019.

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  1. Josef Fallera,1,
  2. Jennifer Cummingsa,
  3. Sameer Saprooa, and
  4. Paul Sajdaa,b,1
  1. aDepartment of Biomedical Engineering, Columbia University, New York, NY 10027;
  2. bData Science Institute, Columbia University, New York, NY 10027
  1. Edited by Richard M. Shiffrin, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN, and approved February 19, 2019 (received for review October 6, 2018)

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  • ↵1To whom correspondence may be addressed. Email: josef.faller{at}gmail.com or psajda{at}columbia.edu.
  • Author contributions: J.F., S.S., and P.S. designed research; J.F. and J.C. performed research; J.F. contributed new reagents/analytic tools; J.F. analyzed data; and J.F. and P.S. wrote the paper.

  • Conflict of interest statement: P.S. is a co-founder of Neuromatters LLC, a company which develops and applies brain computer interface technology for assessment of media and stimuli. None of this work was funded by Neuromatters or used Neuromatters resources. None of what is described in the paper is licensed to Neuromatters or any other company, nor is it being submitted as a patent filing.

  • This article is a PNAS Direct Submission.

  • Data deposition: All data needed to reproduce the findings in this paper are publicly available via IEEE DataPort (dx.doi.org/10.21227/rn3e-bp31).

  • This article contains supporting information online at www.pnas.org/lookup/suppl/doi:10.1073/pnas.1817207116/-/DCSupplemental.

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