A real-time fMRI-based spelling device immediately enabling robust motor-independent communication

Current Biology

Volumn 22, Issue 14, 2012, Pages 1333-1338

  Sorger, Bettina ^a   Reithler, Joel ^a,b   Dahmen, Brigitte ^c   Goebel, Rainer ^a,b  

^a MAASTRICHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b NETHERLANDS INSTITUTE FOR NEUROSCIENCE   (Netherlands)

^c RWTH AACHEN UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN; BRAIN COMPUTER INTERFACE; BRAIN MAPPING; COMMUNICATION AID; EVALUATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; MALE; METHODOLOGY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; QUADRIPLEGIA; VASCULARIZATION;

ADULT; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; BRAIN-COMPUTER INTERFACES; COMMUNICATION; COMMUNICATION AIDS FOR DISABLED; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; QUADRIPLEGIA; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84864289181     PISSN: 09609822     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2012.05.022     Document Type: Article

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