Attentional Selection in a Cocktail Party Environment Can Be Decoded from Single-Trial EEG

Cerebral Cortex

Volumn 25, Issue 7, 2015, Pages 1697-1706

  O'Sullivan, James A ^a   Power, Alan J ^a,b   Mesgarani, Nima ^c,d   Rajaram, Siddharth ^e   Foxe, John J ^f   Shinn Cunningham, Barbara G ^e   Slaney, Malcolm ^g   Shamma, Shihab A ^h   Lalor, Edmund C ^a  

^a TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^e BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f ALBERT EINSTEIN COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^g MICROSOFT RESEARCH   (United States)

^h UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

attention; BCI; cocktail party; EEG; speech; stimulus reconstruction

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; BRAIN; BRAIN CORTEX; COGNITION; COMPUTER INTERFACE; DYNAMICS; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; LATENT PERIOD; MAGNETOENCEPHALOGRAPHY; MALE; NEUROPHYSIOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECORDING; SPEECH; STIMULUS; TASK PERFORMANCE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; PHYSIOLOGY; PROCEDURES; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SPEECH PERCEPTION; TIME FACTOR;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADULT; ATTENTION; BRAIN; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; SPEECH PERCEPTION; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84936759654     PISSN: 10473211     EISSN: 14602199     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/cercor/bht355     Document Type: Article

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