Probing command following in patients with disorders of consciousness using a brain-computer interface

Clinical Neurophysiology

Volumn 124, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 101-106

  Lulé, Dorothée ^a,b,c,d   Noirhomme, Quentin ^a   Kleih, Sonja C ^b,c   Chatelle, Camille ^a   Halder, Sebastian ^b   Demertzi, Athena ^a   Bruno, Marie Aurélie ^a   Gosseries, Olivia ^a   Vanhaudenhuyse, Audrey ^a   Schnakers, Caroline ^a   Thonnard, Marie ^a   Soddu, Andrea ^a   Kübler, Andrea ^b,c   Laureys, Steven ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LIÈGE   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ULM   (Germany)

Author keywords

Altered states of consciousness; BCI; EEG; P300; Standard oddball

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BRAIN COMPUTER INTERFACE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONSCIOUSNESS DISORDER; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; LOCKED IN SYNDROME; MALE; MINIMALLY CONSCIOUS STATE; NEUROPHYSIOLOGY; PERSISTENT VEGETATIVE STATE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS;

ADULT; AGED; AROUSAL; BRAIN-COMPUTER INTERFACES; CONSCIOUSNESS DISORDERS; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVENT-RELATED POTENTIALS, P300; EVOKED POTENTIALS, AUDITORY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PERSISTENT VEGETATIVE STATE; QUADRIPLEGIA;

EID: 84871407309     PISSN: 13882457     EISSN: 18728952     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.clinph.2012.04.030     Document Type: Article

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