College students diagnosed as free of any neurological or attention deficit disorder received EEG biofeedback to enhance beta (16-22 hertz) activity while simultaneously inhibiting high theta and low alpha (6-10 hertz) activity in order to evaluate improvements in attentional measures. Following short-term treatment (mean number of sessions=20), subjects were evaluated as either learners or non-learners based upon standard preversus post-treatment neurofeedback measures. Attention quotients taken from pre and post-treatment measurements using the Intermediate Visual and Auditory (IVA) Continuous Performance Test identified significant improvements in attentional measures in learners, while non-learners showed no significant improvements. Results suggest that some normal young adults can learn to increase EEG activity associated with improved attention. Twenty sessions, however, even for this population may represent the lower limit for achieving significant improvement.
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Rasey et al. (1995) studied this question.