Exploiting P300 amplitude variations can improve classification accuracy in Donchin's BCI speller

2009 4th International IEEE/EMBS Conference on Neural Engineering, NER '09

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 478-481

  Citi, Luca ^a   Poli, Riccardo ^a   Cinel, Caterina ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ESSEX   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPLITUDE VARIATIONS; BRAIN-COMPUTER INTERFACE; CLASSIFICATION ACCURACY; EVENT RELATED POTENTIALS; EXTERNAL STIMULUS; RANDOMISATION; RELIABLE DECISION;

DETECTORS; INTERFACES (COMPUTER);

TARGETS;

EID: 70350241432     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/NER.2009.5109337     Document Type: Conference Paper

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