Visuo-motor coordination ability predicts performance with brain-computer interfaces controlled by modulation of sensorimotor rhythms (SMR)

Frontiers in Human Neuroscience

Volumn 8, Issue AUG, 2014, Pages

  Hammer, Eva M ^a   Kaufmann, Tobias ^a,b   Kleih, Sonja C ^a   Blankertz, Benjamin ^c,d   Kübler, Andrea ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

^c TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

^d Bernstein Focus: Neurotechnology   (Germany)

Author keywords

Attentional impulsivity; Brain computer interfaces; Predictors; Sensorimotor rhythms; Visuo motor coordination abilities

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BARRATT IMPULSIVENESS SCALE; BIG FIVE PLUS ONE PERSONALITY INVENTORY; BRAIN COMPUTER INTERFACE; BRAIN FUNCTION; CALIBRATION; COGNITRONE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTRODE; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY PHASE SYNCHRONIZATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMAGERY; LEARNING TEST; MALE; NEUROFEEDBACK; NEUROMODULATION; NON VERBAL LEARNING TEST; NORMAL HUMAN; PERSONALITY TEST; PREDICTION; PROPRIOCEPTION; PSYCHOLOGIC TEST; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; SENSORIMOTOR FUNCTION; TASK PERFORMANCE; VERBAL LEARNING TEST; VISUOMOTOR COORDINATION;

EID: 84905664245     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16625161     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fnhum.2014.00574     Document Type: Article

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