Gaze independent brain-computer speller with covert visual search tasks

Clinical Neurophysiology

Volumn 122, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 1127-1136

  Liu, Yang ^a   Zhou, Zongtan ^a   Hu, Dewen ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF DEFENSE TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

Brain computer interface (BCI); Oddball paradigm; P300; Visual search

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; BODY POSITION; BRAIN COMPUTER INTERFACE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROOCULOGRAPHY; FEMALE; GAZE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NEUROMUSCULAR DISEASE; NORMAL HUMAN; OCULOMOTOR NERVE DISEASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; STIMULATION; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISION;

ADULT; ATTENTION; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; ELECTRORETINOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS, VISUAL; FEMALE; FIXATION, OCULAR; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; MALE; ONLINE SYSTEMS; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; REACTION TIME; USER-COMPUTER INTERFACE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 79956346505     PISSN: 13882457     EISSN: 18728952     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.clinph.2010.10.049     Document Type: Article

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