Comparison of dry and gel based electrodes for P300 brain-computer interfaces

Frontiers in Neuroscience

Volumn , Issue MAY, 2012, Pages

  Guger, Christoph ^a   Krausz, Gunther ^a   Allison, Brendan Z ^b   Edlinger, Guenter ^a  

^a G TEC MEDICAL ENGINEERING GMBH   (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Brain computer interface; Brain machine interface; Dry electrodes; EEG; ERP; Gel electrodes; IntendiX; P300

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; BRAIN COMPUTER INTERFACE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER; COMPUTER PROGRAM; DRY ELECTRODE; ELECTRODE; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; EVOKED RESPONSE; EVOKED VISUAL RESPONSE; FEEDBACK SYSTEM; FEMALE; GEL ELECTRODE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN;

EID: 84862203847     PISSN: 16624548     EISSN: 1662453X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fnins.2012.00060     Document Type: Article

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