The Berlin brain - computer interface: Accurate performance from first-session in BCI-naïve subjects

IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering

Volumn 55, Issue 10, 2008, Pages 2452-2462

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

^a TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

^b FRAUNHOFER FIRST   (Germany)

^c CHARITÉ UNIVERSITÄTSMEDIZIN BERLIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Brain computer interface; Common spatial pattern analysis; Electroencephalography; Event related desynchronization; Machine learning; Pattern classification; Sensorymotor rhythms; Single trial analysis

Indexed keywords

ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; LEARNING ALGORITHMS; LEARNING SYSTEMS; OPTICAL SENSORS;

BRAIN-COMPUTER INTERFACE; COMMON SPATIAL PATTERN ANALYSIS; EVENT-RELATED DESYNCHRONIZATION; MACHINE LEARNING; PATTERN CLASSIFICATION; SENSORYMOTOR RHYTHMS; SINGLE-TRIAL ANALYSIS;

INTERFACES (COMPUTER);

ACCURACY; ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN COMPUTER INTERFACE; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FOOT; GERMANY; HAND MOVEMENT; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MACHINE LEARNING; MALE; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; NEUROPHYSIOLOGY; NORMAL HUMAN; SENSORIMOTOR FUNCTION;

ADULT; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; BIOFEEDBACK (PSYCHOLOGY); BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; ELECTROOCULOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS, VISUAL; FEMALE; FOOT; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HAND; HUMANS; IMAGINATION; LEARNING; MALE; MAN-MACHINE SYSTEMS; MOVEMENT; PATTERN RECOGNITION, AUTOMATED; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; USER-COMPUTER INTERFACE;

EID: 44449127606     PISSN: 00189294     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TBME.2008.923152     Document Type: Article

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