Brain-computer interface systems: Progress and prospects

Expert Review of Medical Devices

Volumn 4, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 463-474

  Allison, Brendan Z ^a   Wolpaw, Elizabeth Winter ^b   Wolpaw, Jonathan R ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BREMEN   (Germany)

^b WADSWORTH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

ALS; Assistive communication; BCI; BMI; Brain actuated control; Brain computer interface; Brain machine interface; EEG; ERP; Locked in syndrome; Slow cortical potential; SSVEP; Stroke

Indexed keywords

ALPHA RHYTHM; AMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS; BETA RHYTHM; BRAIN COMPUTER INTERFACE; CEREBRAL PALSY; COMMUNICATION AID; COMMUNICATION SOFTWARE; COMPUTER SYSTEM; DISABLED PERSON; DISEASE SEVERITY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; GUILLAIN BARRE SYNDROME; HUMAN; IMAGERY; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; MAGNETOENCEPHALOGRAPHY; MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCULAR DYSTROPHY; NEAR INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; NERVE CONDUCTION; NEUROMUSCULAR DISEASE; REVIEW; SIGNAL PROCESSING; STROKE;

BODY MASS INDEX; BRAIN; COMPUTERS; DISABLED PERSONS; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EVOKED POTENTIALS, VISUAL; HUMANS; USER-COMPUTER INTERFACE;

EID: 34447339625     PISSN: 17434440     EISSN: 17452422     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1586/17434440.4.4.463     Document Type: Review

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