Employing an active mental task to enhance the performance of auditory attention-based brain-computer interfaces

Clinical Neurophysiology

Volumn 124, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 83-90

  Xu, Honglai ^a   Zhang, Dan ^a   Ouyang, Minhui ^a   Hong, Bo ^a  

^a Tsinghua University   (China)

Author keywords

Active mental task; Auditory evoked potentials; Brain computer interfaces

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ACTIVE MENTAL TASK; ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; AUDITORY BRAIN COMPUTER INTERFACE; AUDITORY DISCRIMINATION; AUDITORY STIMULATION; BRAIN COMPUTER INTERFACE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; EVOKED AUDITORY RESPONSE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LATENT PERIOD; MALE; MENTAL TASK; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPONSE TIME; SEX DETERMINATION;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADULT; ATTENTION; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; BRAIN-COMPUTER INTERFACES; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS, AUDITORY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MENTAL PROCESSES; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; REACTION TIME; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84871416870     PISSN: 13882457     EISSN: 18728952     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.clinph.2012.06.004     Document Type: Article

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