Covert attention allows for continuous control of brain-computer interfaces

European Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 31, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 1501-1508

  Bahramisharif, Ali ^a,b   Van Gerven, Marcel ^a,b   Heskes, Tom ^a,b   Jensen, Ole ^b  

^a RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

^b RADBOUD UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

BCI; Circular regression; Magnetoencephalography; Peripheral sensory stimulus; Posterior alpha activity

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATTENTION; BEHAVIOR; BRAIN COMPUTER INTERFACE; BRAIN FUNCTION; COGNITION; EYE FIXATION; GAZE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MAGNETOENCEPHALOGRAPHY; NEUROPHYSIOLOGY; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSORY STIMULATION; TASK PERFORMANCE; ALGORITHM; ALPHA RHYTHM; ASSOCIATION; BRAIN; COMPUTER INTERFACE; MOVEMENT PERCEPTION; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PHYSIOLOGY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SIGNAL PROCESSING; TIME;

ALGORITHMS; ALPHA RHYTHM; ATTENTION; BRAIN; CUES; FIXATION, OCULAR; HUMANS; MAGNETOENCEPHALOGRAPHY; MOTION PERCEPTION; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PHOTIC STIMULATION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; TIME FACTORS; USER-COMPUTER INTERFACE;

EID: 77951197159     PISSN: 0953816X     EISSN: 14609568     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1460-9568.2010.07174.x     Document Type: Article

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