{"id":32722,"date":"2016-12-15T21:05:06","date_gmt":"2016-12-16T05:05:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/12\/how-researchers-tapped-into-brain-activity-to-boost-peoples-confidence"},"modified":"2017-06-04T13:57:40","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T20:57:40","slug":"how-researchers-tapped-into-brain-activity-to-boost-peoples-confidence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/12\/how-researchers-tapped-into-brain-activity-to-boost-peoples-confidence","title":{"rendered":"How Researchers Tapped into Brain Activity to Boost People\u2019s Confidence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/how-researchers-tapped-into-brain-activity-to-boost-peoples-confidence.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>There may be a way to tap into people\u2019s brain activity to boost their confidence, a new study suggests.<\/p>\n<p>In the study, the researchers used a technique called decoded neurofeedback, which involves scanning people\u2019s brains to monitor their brain activity, and using <a href=\"http:\/\/www.livescience.com\/55089-artificial-intelligence.html\">artificial intelligence<\/a> to detect activity patterns that are linked with feelings of confidence.<\/p>\n<p>Then, whenever these patterns are detected, people are given a reward \u2014 in this case, participants were given a small amount of money.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.livescience.com\/57230-brain-activity-confidence.html\">http:\/\/www.livescience.com\/57230-brain-activity-confidence.html<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There may be a way to tap into people\u2019s brain activity to boost their confidence, a new study suggests. In the study, the researchers used a technique called decoded neurofeedback, which involves scanning people\u2019s brains to monitor their brain activity, and using artificial intelligence to detect activity patterns that are linked with feelings of confidence. [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":395,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32722","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32722","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/395"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32722"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32722\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65570,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32722\/revisions\/65570"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32722"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32722"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32722"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}