Conscious perception of brain states: Mental strategies for brain-computer communication

Neuropsychologia

Volumn 41, Issue 8, 2003, Pages 1028-1036

  Neumann, Nicola ^a   Kübler, Andrea ^a   Kaiser, Jochen ^a   Hinterberger, Thilo ^a   Birbaumer, Niels ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TRENTO   (Italy)

Author keywords

Brain computer communication; Contingent negative variation; Mental imagery; Neurofeedback; Slow cortical potentials

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUTOMATION; AUTOREGULATION; BRAIN CORTEX; COMPUTER NETWORK; CONSCIOUSNESS; CONTINGENT NEGATIVE VARIATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; MALE; MEDICAL PRACTICE; PERCEPTION; SKILL; THINKING;

AMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS; BIOFEEDBACK (PSYCHOLOGY); BRAIN; COMMUNICATION; COMPUTERS; CONSCIOUSNESS; CONTINGENT NEGATIVE VARIATION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS, SOMATOSENSORY; HUMANS; LEARNING; MALE; MENTAL PROCESSES; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PARALYSIS; PERCEPTION; PHOTIC STIMULATION; REACTION TIME; SOCIAL CONTROL, INFORMAL; USER-COMPUTER INTERFACE;

EID: 0037230599     PISSN: 00283932     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0028-3932(02)00298-1     Document Type: Article

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