The Effectiveness of Neurofeedback Training on Improving Reaction time Performance in Football Athletes

Document Type : Original Article

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1 Ph.D. in Cognitive Science, Tehran Cognitive Science Institute, Defense Industries, Tehran, Iran.

2 Assistant Prof, Dept of Industrial Design, Islamic Designing Faculty, Tabriz Islamic Art University, Tabriz, Iran.

3 M Sc, Dept of psychology, Zahedan University, Zahedan, Iran.

Abstract

Introduction:One of  the most important goals for students and athletes is to. achieve the optimal performance along with improving reaction time  This study was conducted to determine the effectiveness of neurofeedback training, as a common therapeuti tool, on reaction time performance.
Materials and Methods: In this quasia-experiment study,  a total of 30 volunteers were included and divided randomly into two groups of 15, experimental and control groups. Firstly, both groups received a pre-test reaction time. The experimental group received 20 sessions of real and performance-related neurofeedback training while the control group received the same sessions of random training but irrelevant to perforrmance.  At the end of thesesessions,  as a post-test was conducted for both groups.The Ddata analysis tool was  SPSS version 19.
Results: The results showed that the neurofeedback training could improve the response time performances including; simple, distictive, selctive and audio-visual reaction tim. Participants who received performance-related neurofeedback training sessions had a more optimal reaction time which was significant compared to the control group (p< 0.01). 
Conclusion: Based on the results of this study,  neurofeedback training could be recommended for some importat jobs including military or athletic individuals.

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