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Brain–Computer Interfaces$
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Jonathan Wolpaw and Elizabeth Winter Wolpaw

Print publication date: 2012

Print ISBN-13: 9780195388855

Published to Oxford Scholarship Online: May 2012

DOI: 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195388855.001.0001

BCIs That Use P300 Event-Related Potentials

Chapter:
(p. 215 ) 12 BCIs That Use P300 Event-Related Potentials
Source:
Brain–Computer Interfaces
Author(s):

Eric W. Sellers

Yael Arbel

Emanuel Donchin

Publisher:
Oxford University Press
DOI:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195388855.003.0012

Event-related brain potentials (ERPs) in electroencephalography are manifestations at the scalp of neural activity that is triggered by, and is involved in, the processing of specific events. This chapter focuses on brain-computer interfaces (BCIs) that use P300, an endogenous ERP component. The P300 is a positive potential that occurs over central-parietal scalp 250–700 msec after a rare event occurs in the context of the oddball paradigm. This paradigm has three essential attributes: a subject is presented with a series of events (i.e., stimuli), each of which falls into one of two classes; the events that fall into one of the classes are less frequent than those that fall into the other class; and the subject performs a task that requires classifying each event into one of the two classes.

Keywords:   ERP, electroencephalography, brain-computer interfaces, neural activity, brain signals, oddball paradigm

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