The non-invasive Berlin Brain-Computer Interface: Fast acquisition of effective performance in untrained subjects

NeuroImage

Volumn 37, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 539-550

  Blankertz, Benjamin ^a   Dornhege, Guido ^a   Krauledat, Matthias ^a,b   Müller, Klaus Robert ^a,b   Curio, Gabriel ^c  

^a FRAUNHOFER FIRST   (Germany)

^b TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

^c CHARITÉ UNIVERSITÄTSMEDIZIN BERLIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BERLIN BRAIN COMPUTER INTERFACE; BRAIN COMPUTER INTERFACE; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN MAPPING; CALIBRATION; COMMUNICATION SOFTWARE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; FEEDBACK SYSTEM; HAND MOVEMENT; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFORMATION PROCESSING; LIMB MOVEMENT; MACHINE LEARNING; MALE; MENTAL TASK; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; NEUROPHYSIOLOGY; NON INVASIVE PROCEDURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSORIMOTOR CORTEX; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ADULT; ALGORITHMS; BRAIN; COMMUNICATION AIDS FOR DISABLED; COMPUTER USER TRAINING; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; HUMANS; LEARNING; MALE; MAN-MACHINE SYSTEMS; MIDDLE AGED; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; USER-COMPUTER INTERFACE;

EID: 34249029672     PISSN: 10538119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2007.01.051     Document Type: Article

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