Conscious control of electrodermal activity: The potential of mental exercises

Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology - Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 6561-6564

  Blain, Stefanie ^a,b,c   Mihailidis, Alex ^a,b   Chau, Tom ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^c HOLLAND BLOORVIEW KIDS REHABILITATION HOSPITAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

Augmentative communication; Electrodermal activity; Locked in syndrome

Indexed keywords

AUGMENTATIVE COMMUNICATION; ELECTRODERMAL ACTIVITY; LOCKED IN SYNDROMES; MENTAL EXERCISES;

BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING; COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; FEATURE EXTRACTION; STATISTICAL METHODS;

SIGNAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 34047143266     PISSN: 05891019     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IEMBS.2006.260875     Document Type: Conference Paper

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