A new (semantic) reflexive brain-computer interface: In search for a suitable classifier

Journal of Neuroscience Methods

Volumn 203, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 233-240

  Furdea, A ^a   Ruf, C A ^a   Halder, S ^a   De Massari, D ^a,b,c   Bogdan, M ^a,d   Rosenstiel, W ^a   Matuz, T ^a   Birbaumer, N ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^b Graduate Training Centre of Neuroscience   (Germany)

^c IRCCS   (Italy)

^d UNIVERSITY OF LEIPZIG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Brain computer interface; Classical semantic conditioning; Electroencephalogram; Single trial classification

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN COMPUTER INTERFACE; CLASSIFICATION ALGORITHM; CONDITIONED REFLEX; DATA ANALYSIS; DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; KERNEL METHOD; LINEAR SYSTEM; MALE; MENTAL TASK; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEMANTICS; STIMULUS RESPONSE; SUPPORT VECTOR MACHINE;

ADULT; ALGORITHMS; BRAIN; CONDITIONING, CLASSICAL; DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; SEMANTICS; SUPPORT VECTOR MACHINES; USER-COMPUTER INTERFACE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 81555219169     PISSN: 01650270     EISSN: 1872678X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jneumeth.2011.09.013     Document Type: Article

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