The Effectiveness of Neurofeedback Training in Improving Executive Functional Attention and Cognitive Flexibility of Athlete Students

The aim of this study was to evaluate the effectiveness of neurofeedback education in improving the performance of attention and cognitive flexibility in athletic students.
To this end, 40 male students of physical education at Kharazmi University were randomly assigned to two groups of 20. The first group received 16 sessions of neurofeedback training (2 sessions per week) as the experimental group, and the second group (control) received no intervention. The research tools consisted of the Stroop Attention Computer Test and the Wisconsin Cognitive Flexibility Computer Test. The data were analyzed using one-variable and multivariate analysis of covariance and analyzed using SPSS19 software.
Findings: The results showed that the experimental group had statistically superiority (p