Ideomotor silence: The case of complete paralysis and brain-computer interfaces (BCI)

Psychological Research

Volumn 76, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 183-191

  Birbaumer, Niels ^a,b   Piccione, Francesco ^b   Silvoni, Stefano ^b   Wildgruber, Moritz ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^b SAN CAMILLO FORLANINI HOSPITAL   (Italy)

^c TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BRAIN; COMMUNICATION AID; COMPUTER INTERFACE; CONDITIONED REFLEX; HUMAN; PARALYSIS; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; RAT; THINKING;

AMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS; ANIMALS; BRAIN; COMMUNICATION AIDS FOR DISABLED; CONDITIONING, CLASSICAL; HUMANS; PARALYSIS; RATS; THINKING; USER-COMPUTER INTERFACE;

EID: 84857040375     PISSN: 03400727     EISSN: 14302772     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00426-012-0412-5     Document Type: Article

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