Experiencing your brain: neurofeedback as a new bridge between neuroscience and phenomenology.
Frontiers in human neuroscience January 1, 2013 Juliana Bagdasaryan, Michel Le van Quyen 124 citations
Neurophenomenology aims to combine neuroscience with the study of conscious experience, but integrating first-person reports with brain data remains challenging. Neurofeedback, where people learn to regulate their own brain activity in real time, offers a practical way to braid together subjective experience and neural measurements. In this iterative closed-loop setup, conscious activities can directly influence neuronal patterns, illustrating downward causation. The paper discusses mechanisms that might mediate such effects and outlines future research directions.