Improving the Efficacy of ERP-Based BCIs Using Different Modalities of Covert Visuospatial Attention and a Genetic Algorithm-Based Classifier

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Marchetti, Mauro ^a   Onorati, Francesco ^b   Matteucci, Matteo ^b   Mainardi, Luca ^b   Piccione, Francesco ^c   Silvoni, Stefano ^c   Priftis, Konstantinos ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

^b POLITECNICO DI MILANO   (Italy)

^c IRCCS SAN CAMILLO HOSPITAL   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; BRAIN COMPUTER INTERFACE; CLASSIFIER; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPTH PERCEPTION; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; EYE MOVEMENT; FEMALE; GENETIC ALGORITHM; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INDEPENDENT COMPONENT ANALYSIS; MALE; NEUROPHYSIOLOGY; NORMAL HUMAN; ONLINE SYSTEM; ORIENTATION; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SUPPORT VECTOR MACHINE; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ADULT; ALGORITHMS; ARTIFACTS; ATTENTION; BRAIN-COMPUTER INTERFACES; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS; EYE MOVEMENTS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PHOTIC STIMULATION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84872315166     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0053946     Document Type: Article

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