Brain Plasticity, Cognitive Training and Mental States Assessment: Series II

Dear Colleagues,

Following the success of the first release, this Special Issue of Brain Sciences titled “Brain Plasticity, Cognitive Training and Mental States Assessment: Series II” aims to collect studies detailing the most recent advancements in the field of brain plasticity and learning research. Authors are invited to submit cutting-edge research and review articles that address a broad range of topics related to the evaluation of the capacity of the brain to change itself under clinical (e.g., patients going through rehab sessions) or working contexts (e.g., users learning new tasks). In this regard, being able to measure such brain capabilities and the related changes would be very useful. For example, the outcomes could be used to better assess the therapist–patient empathy, patients’ learning progress, variations of mental states throughout sessions, or to better tailor the training program on the basis of each patient attitude. In this regard, neuroimaging technology like EEG, fMRI, fNIRS, MEG, wearable sensors, VR, and robotic research appear to be the most appropriate means of gathering such information and directly employing it for the optimization of users and training schedules.

This Special Issue is also dedicated to new methodologies and technologies to infer objective information about brain changes and user mental state variations during training/rehabilitation sessions. Studies that may have a significant translational effect on the field of clinical services and research on technologies to improve or accelerate learning processes are also welcome.

Dr. Gianluca Borghini
Dr. Pietro Aricò
Dr. Alessandra Anzolin
Dr. Gianluca Di Flumeri
Guest Editors

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