Evaluation of the performances of different P300 based brain-computer interfaces by means of the efficiency metric

Journal of Neuroscience Methods

Volumn 203, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 361-368

  Quitadamo, L R ^a,b   Abbafati, M ^a   Cardarilli, G C ^a   Mattia, D ^b   Cincotti, F ^b   Babiloni, F ^b   Marciani, M G ^a,b   Bianchi, L ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROME TOR VERGATA   (Italy)

^b IRCCS FONDAZIONE SANTA LUCIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

BCI; Efficiency; Evaluation; Metrics; P300

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; BRAIN COMPUTER INTERFACE; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; NORMAL HUMAN; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PRODUCTIVITY; TASK PERFORMANCE;

CEREBRAL CORTEX; EFFICIENCY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVENT-RELATED POTENTIALS, P300; HUMANS; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; SOFTWARE; SOFTWARE VALIDATION; USER-COMPUTER INTERFACE;

EID: 82055185457     PISSN: 01650270     EISSN: 1872678X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jneumeth.2011.10.010     Document Type: Article

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