Multimodal Neurofeedback: EEG–fNIRS and the Plasticity of the Mental Gesture
Multimodal Neurofeedback: EEG–fNIRS and the Plasticity of the Mental Gesture
Muller, C. O., Prampart, T., Bannier, E., Corouge, I., & Maurel, P. (2025).
Evaluating the effects of multimodal EEG–fNIRS neurofeedback for motor imagery: An experimental platform and study protocol.
PLOS One, 20(9), e0331177.
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A gesture begins before the movement itself.
In the neural silence of a waiting body, the brain rehearses the future.
Before the hand moves, electrical waves and blood flows dance in synchrony, anticipating the act — like a river bending before it reaches the sea.
The study by Muller et al. (2025) dives into this invisible frontier: the space between intention and action, between electrical energy and living blood.
Here emerges the concept of multimodal neurofeedback — the simultaneous listening of brain and circulation, of the electrical and the fluidic, of mind and body.
It is an ecology of the mental gesture, where thinking becomes measurement and feeling becomes learning.
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The Study
The French team developed an experimental platform for motor imagery training using combined EEG–fNIRS neurofeedback.
The goal was to investigate how different types of feedback — electrical (EEG) and hemodynamic (fNIRS) — interact to enhance motor plasticity and bodily self-awareness.
The proposal is simple yet revolutionary: to allow participants to see their own brain and blood in real time, learning to self-regulate.
It is a form of physiological metacognition — a direct dialogue between the imagined gesture and the metabolism that sustains it.
The Mental Gesture and Zone 2
In my concepts, Zone 2 is the territory of physiological Fruição — the space where body and mind balance metabolically, allowing thought to flow effortlessly and gesture to arise naturally.
It is the point at which the nervous system stops reacting and begins to metabolize experience as an extension of the body itself.
Multimodal neurofeedback operates exactly within this range.
By simultaneously regulating electrical activity (EEG) and cortical oxygenation (fNIRS), the system induces a self-regulated state of functional homeostasis, where energy is distributed without waste.
Zone 2 is therefore the neural space of effortless learning, the ideal environment for mental gestures to consolidate into habits.
Biofeedback and Neural Fruição
What we call feedback is, in truth, consciousness returning to itself.
During neurofeedback, the subject observes their own physiology in real time — and the simple act of observing transforms the state being observed.
Fruição happens when this process stabilizes: the body learns to self-regulate without the need for control.
In Muller et al.’s system, this Fruição can be measured.
The coherence between EEG and fNIRS signals reveals that the brain learns to synchronize energy and blood flow — thought becoming biological, and biology becoming sentient.
It is the principle of relational plasticity: learning as metabolic self-tuning.
The Encounter of the Electrical and the Fluidic
EEG captures the instant; fNIRS captures the process.
The first reveals the neural discharge, the second, the vascular response.
Together, they offer a more complete picture of what it means to “think”:
a dynamic field between electrical potential and oxygenation — between light and blood.
This complementarity reflects my notion of the Damasian Mind: consciousness arises from the integration of multiple bodily perceptions — interoception (blood) and proprioception (movement) in continuous flow.
It is the body conversing with itself in two simultaneous languages.
Tensional Selves and Implicit Learning
Each session of neurofeedback reshapes tensional selves — microstructures of balance between electrical and chemical energy.
These selves are the grammar of gesture: learned patterns that reorganize through new experience.
When a participant adjusts their breathing, focus, or intention to alter their EEG or fNIRS, they are not merely training the brain — they are restructuring the architecture of their tensional selves.
Imagination becomes physiology; effort becomes respiration.
Relational Plasticity and Human Quorum Sensing
Multimodal neurofeedback is also a metaphor for Human Quorum Sensing (QSH).
Just as cells modulate behavior through chemical density in their environment, humans can learn to synchronize metabolically.
EEG–fNIRS makes this synchrony visible, teaching the subject to sense their own inner collective — the body as a self-regulating community of energy.
This is the foundation of what I call relational plasticity — the ability of a living system to reorganize itself through empathy with its own signals.
Learning is not repetition but listening until change occurs.
Experimental Findings
Muller et al. (2025) present a protocol with key findings and hypotheses:
Multimodal training increases coherence between the supplementary motor area (EEG) and prefrontal regions (fNIRS);
Guided motor imagery improves accuracy of cortical self-regulation;
The learning curve follows a non-linear pattern — with bursts of energy followed by hemodynamic stabilization, precisely as described in Zone 2.
These data suggest a cyclical physiological learning process — closer to breathing than to repetition.
Multimodal neurofeedback gives back to science what Amerindian traditions have always known: there is no thought without blood.
Consciousness is pulsatile, and all knowledge is, before anything else, a respiration between energy and matter.
Decolonial neuroscience recognizes this gesture: measuring the brain not to control it, but to listen to it.
EEG–fNIRS becomes a mirror of biological wisdom — a modern form of technological shamanism, where humans rediscover their inner rhythm through light itself.
Conclusion
Muller et al. (2025) show that the future of neurofeedback lies not only in performance, but in integrated self-perception.
By combining the electrical and the hemodynamic, the mind rediscovers its hybrid nature — between what thinks and what pulses.
The mental gesture is a form of life:
the body that dreams, and the dream that breathes.
To modulate one’s own brain is to listen to the metabolism of consciousness.
And it is precisely there — between light and blood — that Fruição is born.
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EEG–fNIRS • multimodal neurofeedback • motor imagery • Zone 2 • Fruição • Damasian Mind • Tensional Selves • relational plasticity • Human Quorum Sensing • physiological consciousness • decolonial neuroscience • NIRx • Brain Products
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