神經回饋訓練在認知功能增進與臨床應用已有報告並成立專門之學會，然而神經回饋訓練之成效與作用機轉尚不清楚，因此本論文進行alpha節律神經回饋的控制力訓練之成功策略分析與alpha節律進步量評估，發現這些成功訓練者使用之策略與”自我”相關策略使用有關。因此本論文進行自我參考作業的語詞資料庫在情緒與詞頻上評估，以補充修正原有自我之語詞資料庫的不足，進而確認三組自我參考作業的測試題庫的信賴度，以確認自我相關作業之一致性。最後，透過神經回饋訓練，發現神經回饋對自我相關神經網路與記憶功能有顯著影響。綜合以上結果，本論文提出alpha節律之神經回饋可以透過自我神經網路調控影響大腦活性與記憶功能表現。

Neurofeedback training (NFT) exhibits significant enhancement on several cognitive functions and ameliorates clinical symptoms of psychiatric/neurological disorders. Nowadays, a professional neurofeedback and/or biofeedback society has been developed. However, important issues, such as trainability of brain activity and underlying mechanism of NFT, are still largely unknown. The present study first analyzed strategies of successful responders in terms of relative alpha amplitude and total alpha duration. Our results indicated a great involvement of “self” concept. Thereafter, the current study reanalyzed self-related adjective vocabularies in terms of emotion and frequency. In addition, this study created 3 data sets for the self-referential processing (SRP) and validated their reliabilities and consistencies. Finally, the present study performed NFT in the two groups (Alpha and Control) and assessed performance of 2 memory tasks and SRP before and after NFT. Our results exhibited successful alpha responders contributing on memory enhancement accompanied by significant activation of SRP’s self-component. We conclude that NFT of alpha activity enhances memory being associated with self-related neural networks.

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