Learning in the brain-computer interface: Insights about degrees of freedom and degeneracy from a landscape model of motor learning

Cognitive Processing

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 37-47

  Newell, Karl M ^a   Liu, Yeou Teh ^b   Mayer Kress, Gottfried ^a  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NATIONAL TAIWAN NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Augmented feedback; Brain computer interface; Degeneracy; Degrees of freedom; Learning

Indexed keywords

BRAIN COMPUTER INTERFACE; FEEDBACK SYSTEM; HUMAN; LEARNING; LOCOMOTION; MODEL; MOTOR CONTROL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW;

EID: 15044341835     PISSN: 16124782     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10339-004-0047-6     Document Type: Review

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