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Attentional Modulation of Auditory Event-Related Potentials in a Brain-Computer Interface

2004

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Motivated by the particular problems involved in communicating with "locked-in" paralysed patients, we aim to develop a brain-computer interface that uses auditory stimuli. We describe a paradigm that allows a user to make a binary decision by focusing attention on one of two concurrent auditory stimulus sequences. Using Support Vector Machine classification and Recursive Channel Elimination on the independent components of averaged event-related potentials, we show that an untrained user‘s EEG data can be classified with an encouragingly high level of accuracy. This suggests that it is possible for users to modulate EEG signals in a single trial by the conscious direction of attention, well enough to be useful in BCI.

Author(s): Hill, J. and Lal, TN. and Bierig, K. and Birbaumer, N. and Schölkopf, B.
Book Title: BioCAS04
Journal: Proceedings of the 2004 IEEE International Workshop on Biomedical Circuits and Systems (BioCAS04)
Number (issue): S3/5/INV- S3/17-20
Pages: 4
Year: 2004
Month: December
Day: 0
Publisher: IEEE Computer Society

Department(s): Empirical Inference
Bibtex Type: Conference Paper (inproceedings)

DOI: 10.1109/BIOCAS.2004.1454156
Event Name: 2004 IEEE International Workshop on Biomedical Circuits and Systems
Event Place: Singapore

Address: Los Alamitos, CA, USA
Digital: 0
Language: en
Organization: Max-Planck-Gesellschaft
School: Biologische Kybernetik

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@inproceedings{2951,
  title = {Attentional Modulation of Auditory Event-Related Potentials in a Brain-Computer Interface},
  author = {Hill, J. and Lal, TN. and Bierig, K. and Birbaumer, N. and Sch{\"o}lkopf, B.},
  journal = {Proceedings of the 2004 IEEE International Workshop on Biomedical Circuits and Systems (BioCAS04)},
  booktitle = {BioCAS04},
  number = {S3/5/INV- S3/17-20},
  pages = {4},
  publisher = {IEEE Computer Society},
  organization = {Max-Planck-Gesellschaft},
  school = {Biologische Kybernetik},
  address = {Los Alamitos, CA, USA},
  month = dec,
  year = {2004},
  doi = {10.1109/BIOCAS.2004.1454156},
  month_numeric = {12}
}