Optimized stimulus presentation patterns for an event-related potential EEG-based brain-computer interface

Medical and Biological Engineering and Computing

Volumn 49, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 181-191

  Jin, Jing ^a,b   Allison, Brendan Z ^b   Sellers, Eric W ^c   Brunner, Clemens ^b   Horki, Petar ^b   Wang, Xingyu ^a   Neuper, Christa ^b  

^a China   (China)

^b GRAZ UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

^c EAST TENNESSEE STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Brain computer interface; EEG; Flash pattern; P300 event related potential

Indexed keywords

BIT RATES; CLASSIFICATION ACCURACY; COMPUTER INTERFACES; EEG; EVENT RELATED POTENTIALS; FLASH PATTERN; MATRIX; OFF-LINE SIMULATIONS; ONLINE EXPERIMENT; P300 EVENT-RELATED POTENTIAL; QUASI-RANDOM; TARGET CHARACTER;

INTERFACES (COMPUTER); OPTIMIZATION;

BRAIN COMPUTER INTERFACE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN; COMPUTER INTERFACE; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; METHODOLOGY; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PHYSIOLOGY; SIGNAL PROCESSING;

ADULT; BRAIN; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVENT-RELATED POTENTIALS, P300; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PHOTIC STIMULATION; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; USER-COMPUTER INTERFACE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 79952631437     PISSN: 01400118     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11517-010-0689-8     Document Type: Article

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