Using a motor imagery questionnaire to estimate the performance of a Brain-Computer Interface based on object oriented motor imagery

Clinical Neurophysiology

Volumn 124, Issue 8, 2013, Pages 1586-1595

  Vuckovic, Aleksandra ^a   Osuagwu, Bethel A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

BCI illiteracy; Brain Computer Interface; Goal oriented imagination; Kinaesthetic imagery; Motor imagery questionnaire; Visual imagery

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN COMPUTER INTERFACE; COGNITION; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGINATION; MALE; MOTOR IMAGERY QUESTIONNAIRE; MOTOR IMAGINATION; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUESTIONNAIRE; TASK PERFORMANCE;

BCI ILLITERACY; BRAIN-COMPUTER INTERFACE; GOAL ORIENTED IMAGINATION; KINAESTHETIC IMAGERY; MOTOR IMAGERY QUESTIONNAIRE; VISUAL IMAGERY;

ADULT; BRAIN-COMPUTER INTERFACES; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGERY (PSYCHOTHERAPY); IMAGINATION; MALE; MOTOR ACTIVITY; QUESTIONNAIRES; USER-COMPUTER INTERFACE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84880168723     PISSN: 13882457     EISSN: 18728952     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.clinph.2013.02.016     Document Type: Article

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