Exogenous and endogenous orienting of visuospatial attention in P300-guided brain computer interfaces: A pilot study on healthy participants

Clinical Neurophysiology

Volumn 123, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 774-779

  Marchetti, M ^a   Piccione, F ^b   Silvoni, S ^b   Priftis, K ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

^b IRCCS SAN CAMILLO HOSPITAL   (Italy)

Author keywords

Brain computer interface; Covert attention; Endogenous orienting; Exogenous orienting; Locked in syndrome; P300; Visuospatial attention

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; BRAIN COMPUTER INTERFACE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DEPTH PERCEPTION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GAZE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; PILOT STUDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPATIAL ORIENTATION; VISUOSPATIAL ATTENTION;

ADULT; ATTENTION; BRAIN; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVENT-RELATED POTENTIALS, P300; EYE MOVEMENTS; FEMALE; FIXATION, OCULAR; HUMANS; LEARNING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; ORIENTATION; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PILOT PROJECTS; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; SOFTWARE; SPACE PERCEPTION; USER-COMPUTER INTERFACE; VISUAL PERCEPTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84857790194     PISSN: 13882457     EISSN: 18728952     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.clinph.2011.07.045     Document Type: Article

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