Impact of auditory distraction on user performance in a brain-computer interface driven by different mental tasks

Clinical Neurophysiology

Volumn 122, Issue 10, 2011, Pages 2003-2009

  Friedrich, Elisabeth V C ^a   Scherer, Reinhold ^b,c   Sonnleitner, Kristina ^a   Neuper, Christa ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRAZ   (Austria)

^b GRAZ UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

^c University of Washington   (United States)

Author keywords

4 class BCI; Auditory distraction; Brain computer interface (BCI); Different mental tasks; P300

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ADULT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; BRAIN COMPUTER INTERFACE; DISTRACTIBILITY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGERY; LATENT PERIOD; MALE; MENTAL PERFORMANCE; MENTAL SUBSTRACTION; MENTAL TASK; MOTOR IMAGERY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REACTION TIME; RESPONSE TIME; SELF REPORT; SPATIAL NAVIGATION; STIMULUS RESPONSE; WORD ASSOCIATION;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADULT; ATTENTION; BRAIN; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; THINKING; USER-COMPUTER INTERFACE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 80052411431     PISSN: 13882457     EISSN: 18728952     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.clinph.2011.03.019     Document Type: Article

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