Lingual electrotactile stimulation as an alternative sensory feedback pathway for brain-computer interface applications

Journal of Neural Engineering

Volumn 9, Issue 4, 2012, Pages

  Wilson, J Adam ^a   Walton, Léo M ^b   Tyler, Mitch ^b   Williams, Justin ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BRAIN-COMPUTER INTERFACE APPLICATIONS; CURSOR MOVEMENT; ELECTROTACTILE STIMULATION; HIGH RESOLUTION; MOTOR DISABILITY; SUBSTITUTION SYSTEMS; TACTILE FEEDBACK; TASK INFORMATION; TASK PERFORMANCE; TRAINING TIME; VISUAL FEEDBACK;

SENSORY FEEDBACK; VISUAL COMMUNICATION;

BRAIN COMPUTER INTERFACE;

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; BRAIN COMPUTER INTERFACE; CASE REPORT; CONGENITAL BLINDNESS; DISEASE SEVERITY; ELECTRODE; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; ELECTROSTIMULATION; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGE DISPLAY; IMAGERY; LEARNING; LINGUAL ELECTROTACTILE STIMULATION; MOTOR DYSFUNCTION; MOVEMENT (PHYSIOLOGY); NORMAL HUMAN; PERCEPTIVE THRESHOLD; PHYSICAL DISABILITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPONSE TIME; SENSORY DYSFUNCTION; SENSORY FEEDBACK; SKILL; TACTILE STIMULATION; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL STIMULATION;

BRAIN-COMPUTER INTERFACES; FEEDBACK, SENSORY; HUMANS; MICROELECTRODES; NEURAL PATHWAYS; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; REACTION TIME; TONGUE; TOUCH;

EID: 84864403748     PISSN: 17412560     EISSN: 17412552     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1741-2560/9/4/045007     Document Type: Article

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