A note on ethical aspects of BCI

Neural Networks

Volumn 22, Issue 9, 2009, Pages 1352-1357

  Haselager, Pim ^a   Vlek, Rutger ^a   Hill, Jeremy ^b   Nijboer, Femke ^c,d  

^a RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR BIOLOGICAL CYBERNETICS   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^d TECNALIA RESEARCH AND INNOVATION   (Spain)

Author keywords

BCI; Communication; Ethics; Informed consent; Locked in syndrome

Indexed keywords

BCI; CLINICAL TOOLS; EFFECTIVE COMMUNICATION; ETHICAL ASPECTS; ETHICS; INFORMED CONSENT; LOCKED-IN SYNDROME; MORAL RESPONSIBILITY;

ARTICLE; AUDIO RECORDING; BRAIN COMPUTER INTERFACE; CLINICAL PRACTICE; HUMAN; INFORMATION DISSEMINATION; INFORMED CONSENT; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; MASS MEDIUM; MEDICAL ETHICS; MEDICAL RESEARCH; PATIENT PARTICIPATION; PATIENT SELECTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESEARCH ETHICS; RESPONSIBILITY; VIDEORECORDING;

BIOETHICS; BRAIN; COMMUNICATION; COMMUNICATIONS MEDIA; COOPERATIVE BEHAVIOR; HUMANS; INFORMED CONSENT; PROFESSIONAL-PATIENT RELATIONS; QUADRIPLEGIA; USER-COMPUTER INTERFACE;

EID: 70350391924     PISSN: 08936080     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neunet.2009.06.046     Document Type: Article

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