Exploring miniaturized EEG electrodes for brain-computer interfaces. An EEG you do not see?

Physiological Reports

Volumn 3, Issue 4, 2015, Pages

  Bleichner, Martin G ^a   Lundbeck, Micha ^a   Selisky, Matthias ^a   Minow, Falk ^b   Jäger, Manuela ^a   Emkes, Reiner ^a   Debener, Stefan ^a   De Vos, Maarten ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OLDENBURG   (Germany)

^b EASYCAP GmbH   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Ear EEG; Miniaturized; P300 speller; Ton electrodes

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANALYTICAL PARAMETERS; ARTICLE; BRAIN COMPUTER INTERFACE; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPH ELECTRODE; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MEASUREMENT ACCURACY; MOBILITY; ROBUSTNESS; STIMULUS; VISUAL EVOKED POTENTIAL;

EID: 85003485935     PISSN: None     EISSN: 2051817X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.14814/phy2.12362     Document Type: Article

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