Evolution of brain-computer interface: Action potentials, local field potentials and electrocorticograms

Current Opinion in Neurobiology

Volumn 20, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 741-745

  Moran, Daniel ^a  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY IN ST LOUIS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ACTION POTENTIAL; ARM PROSTHESIS; BRAIN COMPUTER INTERFACE; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; ELECTROCORTICOGRAPHY; EPILEPSY; HUMAN; MICROELECTRODE; MOTOR CONTROL; MOTOR DYSFUNCTION; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NONHUMAN; PRIMARY MOTOR CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; ROBOTICS; SINGLE UNIT ACTIVITY;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; BRAIN; CEREBRAL CORTEX; HUMANS; MICROELECTRODES; MOVEMENT; NEURONAL PLASTICITY; USER-COMPUTER INTERFACE;

EID: 78651442110     PISSN: 09594388     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.conb.2010.09.010     Document Type: Review

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