Using brain-computer interfaces to overcome the extinction of goal-directed thinking in minimally conscious state patients

Cognitive Processing

Volumn 13, Issue 1 SUPPL, 2012, Pages

  Liberati, Giulia ^a,b   Birbaumer, Niels ^b,c  

^a InteruniversityCentre for Research on Cognitive Processing in Natural and Artificial Systems   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^c SAN CAMILLO FORLANINI HOSPITAL   (Italy)

Author keywords

Brain computer interface; Embodied cognition; Goal directed thinking; Minimally conscious state; Motor imagery

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BRAIN COMPUTER INTERFACE; BRAIN FUNCTION; GOAL DIRECTED THINKING; GUIDED IMAGERY; HUMAN; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; MINIMALLY CONSCIOUS STATE; MOTIVATION; PATIENT AUTONOMY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REINFORCEMENT; SOCIAL INTERACTION; TASK PERFORMANCE; THINKING; COGNITION; METHODOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PERSISTENT VEGETATIVE STATE; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOTHERAPY;

BRAIN-COMPUTER INTERFACES; COGNITION; EXTINCTION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; GOALS; HUMANS; IMAGERY (PSYCHOTHERAPY); PERSISTENT VEGETATIVE STATE; THINKING;

EID: 84872802403     PISSN: 16124782     EISSN: 16124790     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10339-012-0497-1     Document Type: Article

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