Brain–Computer Interfaces: A Gentle Introduction

Frontiers Collection

Volumn Part F952, Issue , 2009, Pages 1-27

  Graimann, Bernhard ^a   Allison, Brendan ^b   Pfurtscheller, Gert ^b  

^a Otto Bock HealthCare GmbH   (Germany)

^b GRAZ UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

Author keywords

Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis; Brain Pattern; Brain Signal; Information Transfer Rate; Motor Imagery

Indexed keywords

EID: 85165891290     PISSN: 16123018     EISSN: 21976619     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-02091-9_1     Document Type: Chapter

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