Poor performance in SSVEP BCIs: Are worse subjects just slower?

Proceedings of the Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, EMBS

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 3833-3836

  Guger, Christoph ^a   Allison, Brendan ^b   Hintermueller, Christoph ^a   Prueckl, Robert ^a   Großwindhager, Bernhard ^a   Kapeller, Christoph ^a   Edlinger, Guenter ^a  

^a G TEC MEDICAL ENGINEERING GMBH   (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BRAIN ACTIVITY; BRAIN-COMPUTER INTERFACES (BCI); EFFECTIVE COMMUNICATION; OFF-LINE SIMULATIONS; POOR PERFORMANCE; SUBSTANTIAL VARIATIONS;

ENGINEERING; INDUSTRIAL ENGINEERING;

BRAIN COMPUTER INTERFACE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BRAIN; CHILD; COMPUTER INTERFACE; ELECTRODE; EVOKED VISUAL RESPONSE; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PHYSIOLOGY; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; BRAIN; CHILD; ELECTRODES; EVOKED POTENTIALS, VISUAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PHOTIC STIMULATION; USER-COMPUTER INTERFACE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84870798568     PISSN: 1557170X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/EMBC.2012.6346803     Document Type: Conference Paper

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