Integrating dynamic stopping, transfer learning and language models in an adaptive zero-training ERP speller

Journal of Neural Engineering

Volumn 11, Issue 3, 2014, Pages

  Kindermans, Pieter Jan ^a   Tangermann, Michael ^b   Müller, Klaus Robert ^c,d   Schrauwen, Benjamin ^a  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

^c TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

^d Korea University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

BCI; P300; Speller matrix; Subject to subject transfer; Unsupervised learning; Visual event related potentials

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; C (PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE); COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; DECODING; UNSUPERVISED LEARNING;

BCI; EVENT RELATED POTENTIALS; EVENTRELATED POTENTIAL (ERPS); P300; PROBABILISTIC FRAMEWORK; SUBJECT-TO-SUBJECT TRANSFER; UNSUPERVISED ADAPTATION; UNSUPERVISED APPROACHES;

CALIBRATION;

ARTICLE; BRAIN COMPUTER INTERFACE; CALIBRATION; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; INTEGRATING DYNAMIC STOPPING; LANGUAGE MODEL; LEARNING TRANSFER; MACHINE LEARNING; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBABILITY; SIMULATION; ALGORITHM; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; BRAIN MAPPING; COMMUNICATION AID; COMPUTER INTERFACE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED RESPONSE; HUMAN; LANGUAGE; MAN MACHINE INTERACTION; PHYSIOLOGY; PROCEDURES; SYSTEM ANALYSIS; THEORETICAL MODEL;

ALGORITHMS; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; BRAIN MAPPING; BRAIN-COMPUTER INTERFACES; COMMUNICATION AIDS FOR DISABLED; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; MAN-MACHINE SYSTEMS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; SYSTEMS INTEGRATION; USER-COMPUTER INTERFACE;

EID: 84901282773     PISSN: 17412560     EISSN: 17412552     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1741-2560/11/3/035005     Document Type: Article

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