A maximum mutual information approach for constructing a 1D continuous control signal at a self-paced brain-computer interface

Journal of Neural Engineering

Volumn 7, Issue 5, 2010, Pages

  Zhang, Haihong ^a   Guan, Cuntai ^a  

^a INSTITUTE FOR INFOCOMM RESEARCH   (Singapore)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONTINUOUS CONTROL; CONTROL SIGNAL; DATA SETS; GRADIENT BASED ALGORITHM; MAXIMUM MUTUAL INFORMATION; MENTAL STATE; MOTOR IMAGERY; MUTUAL INFORMATIONS; NON-PARAMETRIC; OFF-LINE SIMULATIONS; OUTPUT DISTRIBUTION; SUBJECT-SPECIFIC; TRAINING DATA; UNIVARIATE;

INFORMATION THEORY; INTERFACES (COMPUTER); LEARNING ALGORITHMS; METADATA; OPTIMIZATION; STEREOPHONIC BROADCASTING;

BRAIN COMPUTER INTERFACE;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; BRAIN COMPUTER INTERFACE; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; IMAGERY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SIMULATION; THEORETICAL MODEL; BRAIN; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER INTERFACE; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; MOTOR CORTEX; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE;

BRAIN; HUMANS; MOTOR CORTEX; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; USER-COMPUTER INTERFACE;

EID: 78649267093     PISSN: 17412560     EISSN: 17412552     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1741-2560/7/5/056009     Document Type: Article

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