The Thought Translation Device: structure of a multimodal brain-computer communication system

International IEEE/EMBS Conference on Neural Engineering, NER

Volumn 2003-January, Issue , 2003, Pages 603-606

  Hinterberger, Thilo ^a   Mellinger, Jürgen ^a   Birbaumer, Niels ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TRENTO   (Italy)

Author keywords

Brain computer interfaces; Computer architecture; Electroencephalography; Epilepsy; Filters; Neuroscience; Pediatrics; Psychology; Statistical analysis; Switches

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; FILTERS (FOR FLUIDS); HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION; INTERFACES (COMPUTER); MEDICAL COMPUTING; NEUROLOGY; PEDIATRICS; STATISTICAL METHODS; SWITCHES;

AMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS; ATTENTION DEFICIT DISORDER; COMPUTER COMMUNICATIONS; EPILEPSY; NEUROSCIENCE; PSYCHOLOGY; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS METHODS; THOUGHT TRANSLATION DEVICES;

BRAIN COMPUTER INTERFACE;

EID: 1442343307     PISSN: 19483546     EISSN: 19483554     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/CNE.2003.1196900     Document Type: Conference Paper

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