Learned EEG-based brain self-regulation of motor-related oscillations during application of transcranial electric brain stimulation: Feasibility and limitations

Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience

Volumn 8, Issue MAR, 2014, Pages

  Soekadar, Surjo R ^a,b,c   Witkowski, Matthias ^a,b,c   Cossio, Eliana G ^b,c   Birbaumer, Niels ^c,d   Cohen, Leonardo G ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF NEUROLOGICAL DISORDERS AND STROKE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^d SAN CAMILLO FORLANINI HOSPITAL   (Italy)

Author keywords

Brain machine interface (BMI) control; EEG; Motor imagery; Stimulation artifacts; Transcranial electric stimulation (TES)

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN COMPUTER INTERFACE; ELECTRODE; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED RESPONSE; FEASIBILITY STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MENTAL FUNCTION; MOTOR IMAGERY; NEUROFEEDBACK; NORMAL HUMAN; OSCILLATION; TRANSCRANIAL DIRECT CURRENT STIMULATION;

EID: 84896960494     PISSN: 16625153     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fnbeh.2014.00093     Document Type: Article

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