α-modulation induced by covert attention shifts as a new input modality for EEG-based BCIs

Conference Proceedings - IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man and Cybernetics

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 481-487

  Schmidt, Nico ^a   Blankertz, Benjamin ^a   Treder, Matthias Sebastian ^a  

^a TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

rythm; BCI; Covert attention; EEG; Visual speller

Indexed keywords

ALPHA ACTIVITIES; BCI; COVERT ATTENTION; CURRENT SOURCE DENSITY; EEG; OCCIPITAL CORTEX; ROBUST CLASSIFICATION; SPATIAL RESOLUTION; TARGET LOCATION; VISUAL ATTENTION; VISUAL SPELLER;

CYBERNETICS; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; INTERFACES (COMPUTER); MAGNETOENCEPHALOGRAPHY;

BRAIN COMPUTER INTERFACE;

EID: 78751565352     PISSN: 1062922X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICSMC.2010.5641967     Document Type: Conference Paper

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