Covert visuospatial attention orienting in a brain-computer interface for amyotrophic lateral sclerosis patients

Neurorehabilitation and Neural Repair

Volumn 27, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 430-438

  Marchetti, Mauro ^a   Piccione, Francesco ^b   Silvoni, Stefano ^b   Gamberini, Luciano ^a   Priftis, Konstantinos ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

^b IRCCS SAN CAMILLO HOSPITAL   (Italy)

Author keywords

amyotrophic lateral sclerosis; brain computer interface; endogenous visuospatial attention orienting; exogenous visuospatial attention orienting; late negative component; P300

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS; ARTICLE; BRAIN COMPUTER INTERFACE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; CLINICAL EVALUATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPTH PERCEPTION; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; EYE MOVEMENT; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MOTOR DYSFUNCTION;

AMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS; BRAIN-COMPUTER INTERFACE; ENDOGENOUS VISUOSPATIAL ATTENTION ORIENTING; EXOGENOUS VISUOSPATIAL ATTENTION ORIENTING; LATE NEGATIVE COMPONENT; P300;

ADULT; AMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ATTENTION; BRAIN-COMPUTER INTERFACES; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; ORIENTATION; PHOTIC STIMULATION; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 84877285322     PISSN: 15459683     EISSN: 15526844     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1545968312471903     Document Type: Article

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