Exploring virtual environments with an EEG-based BCI through motor imagery

Biomedizinische Technik

Volumn 50, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 86-91

  Leeb, Robert ^a   Scherer, R ^a   Keinrath, C ^a   Guger, C ^b   Pfurtscheller, G ^a,c  

^a GRAZ UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

^b G TEC MEDICAL ENGINEERING GMBH   (Austria)

^c LUDWIG BOLTZMANN INSTITUTE FOR LUNG VASCULAR RESEARCH   (Austria)

Author keywords

Brain Computer Interface (BCI); Electroencephalogram (EEG); Motor imagery; Navigation; Virtual Reality (VR)

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; BRAIN; FEEDBACK; GRAPH THEORY; INTERFACES (COMPUTER); LEARNING SYSTEMS; NAVIGATION; VIRTUAL REALITY;

BRAIN-COMPUTER INTERFACE (BCI); CLASSIFICATION ACCURACY; HAND MOVEMENTS; MOTOR IMAGERY;

ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN COMPUTER INTERFACE; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; HAND MOVEMENT; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGERY; IMAGINATION; NORMAL HUMAN; VIRTUAL REALITY; ALGORITHM; AUTOMATED PATTERN RECOGNITION; BRAIN; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; COMPUTER GRAPHICS; COMPUTER INTERFACE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; ENVIRONMENT; EVOKED MUSCLE RESPONSE; FEASIBILITY STUDY; METHODOLOGY; ONLINE SYSTEM; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE;

ADULT; ALGORITHMS; BRAIN; COMPUTER GRAPHICS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DIAGNOSIS, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; ENVIRONMENT; EVOKED POTENTIALS, MOTOR; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; HUMANS; IMAGINATION; ONLINE SYSTEMS; PATTERN RECOGNITION, AUTOMATED; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; USER-COMPUTER INTERFACE;

EID: 20844437584     PISSN: 00135585     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1515/BMT.2005.012     Document Type: Article

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