Whatever Works: A Systematic User-Centered Training Protocol to Optimize Brain-Computer Interfacing Individually

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 9, 2013, Pages

  Friedrich, Elisabeth V C ^a   Neuper, Christa ^a,b   Scherer, Reinhold ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRAZ   (Austria)

^b GRAZ UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANALYTICAL PARAMETERS; ARTICLE; AUDITORY IMAGERY; BRAIN COMPUTER INTERFACE; DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; FEEDBACK SYSTEM; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INTERNET; MALE; MENTAL ROTATION TASK; MENTAL SUBTRACTION; MENTAL TASK; MOTOR IMAGERY; NORMAL HUMAN; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PERSONALITY TEST; SCREENING TEST; SPATIAL NAVIGATION; TASK PERFORMANCE; USER CENTERED TRAINING PROTOCOL;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BRAIN-COMPUTER INTERFACES; DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS; EDUCATION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGINATION; MALE;

EID: 84884527741     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0076214     Document Type: Article

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