Brain-computer communication and slow cortical potentials

IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering

Volumn 51, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 1011-1018

  Hinterberger, Thilo ^a   Schmidt, Stefan ^b,f   Neumann, Nicola ^a   Mellinger, Jürgen ^a   Blankertz, Benjamin ^c   Curio, Gabriel ^d   Birbaumer, Niels ^a,e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

^c FRAUNHOFER FIRST   (Germany)

^d University Medicine   (Germany)

^e UNIVERSITY OF TRENTO   (Italy)

^f Samueli Institute   (United States)

Author keywords

Brain computer interface (BCI); Slow cortical potentials (SCP); Thought translation device (TTD)

Indexed keywords

BRIN-COMPUTER COMMUNICATION; INTERSUBJECT VARIABILITY; SLOW CORTICAL POTENTIALS (SCP); THOUGHT TRANSLATION DEVICE (TTD);

COMMUNICATION; CONTROL; ELECTRODES; FEEDBACK; INTERFACES (COMPUTER); PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGY;

BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING;

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; BRAIN COMPUTER INTERFACE; BRAIN ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; COMPUTER INTERFACE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEVICE; ELECTRODE; EVOKED CORTICAL RESPONSE; EYE MOVEMENT CONTROL; FEEDBACK SYSTEM; HUMAN; PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGY; THOUGHT TRANSLATION DEVICE;

ADULT; ALGORITHMS; BIOFEEDBACK (PSYCHOLOGY); CEREBRAL CORTEX; COGNITION; COMMUNICATION AIDS FOR DISABLED; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; USER-COMPUTER INTERFACE;

EID: 2442635335     PISSN: 00189294     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TBME.2004.827067     Document Type: Article

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