BBCI - Skills

IN CONSTRUCTION

Here, we list references that each member of the BBCI should know, and skills and knowledge that everybody should have.

Literature - General BCI

BCI Overview

• Kübler A, Müller KR, An introducton to brain computer interfacing, in Toward Brain-Computer Interfacing, MIT press, 2007 pdf.

• Wolpaw JR, Birbaumer N, McFarland DJ, Pfurtscheller G, Vaughan TM. Brain-computer interfaces for communication and control. Clin Neurophysiol, 113:767-791, 2002. pdf.

ERD/ERS

• Pfurtscheller G, Lopes da Silva FH. Event-related EEG/MEG synchronization and desynchronization: basic principles. Clin Neurophysiol, 110(11):1842-1857, Nov 1999 pdf.

ERPs (suggestions for better/other references?)

• Patel SH, Azzam PN, Characterization of N200 and P300: Selected Studies of the Event-Related Potential. Int J Medical Sciences 2(4):147-154, 2005 pdf.

Techniques

• Blankertz B, Lemm S, Treder MS, Haufe S, Müller KR, Single-trial analysis and classification of ERP components - a tutorial, NeuroImage, in press. pdf

• Blankertz B, Tomioka R, Lemm S, Kawanabe M, Müller KR. Optimizing spatial filters for robust EEG single-trial analysis. IEEE Signal Proc Magazine, 25(1):41-56, 2008. pdf

• Lemm S, Dickhaus T, Blankertz B, Müller KR. Machine Learning and Pattern Recognition in Computational Neuroscience - a Review, NeuroImage, in press pdf

• Parra LC, Spence CD, Gerson AD, Sajda P. Recipes for the linear analysis of EEG. NeuroImage, 28(2):326-341, 2005. pdf

• Parra LC, Christoforou C, Gerson AD, Dyrholm M, Luo A, Wagner M, Philastides M, Sajda P. Spatiotemporal Linear Decoding of Brain State. IEEE Signal Proc Magazine, 25(1): 107-115, 2008. pdf

Literature - Specific BBCI Research

Approach of Co-adaptive Calibration

• Vidaurre C, Sannelli C, Müller KR, Blankertz B, Machine-Learning Based Co-adaptive Calibration, Neural Comput, in press pdf.

Mental Typewriter Hex-o-Spell

• Williamson J, Murray-Smith R, Blankertz B, Krauledat M, Müller KR, Designing for uncertain, asymmetric control: Interaction design for brain-computer interfaces. Int J Hum Comput Stud, 67(10):827-841, 2009 pdf

Spatial Auditory Speller

• Schreuder M, Blankertz B, Tangermann M, A New Auditory Multi-class Brain-Computer Interface Paradigm: Spatial Hearing as an Informative Cue, PLoS ONE, 5(4):e9813, 2010 link.

Matrix Speller and the Role of Eye Gaze

• Treder MS, Blankertz B, (C)overt attention and visual speller design in an ERP-based brain-computer interface, Behav Brain Funct, 6:28, 2010 link.

Visual ERP-Speller Independent from Gaze

• Treder MS, Schmidt NM, Blankertz B, Gaze-independent high-accuracy brain-computer interfaces based on covert attention and feature attention, submitted manuscript: pdf.

Literature - BBCI Approaches

Operant Conditioning of Slow Cortical Potentials (SCPs)

• Kübler A, Kotchoubey B, Hinterberger T, Ghanayim N, Perelmouter J, Schauer M, Fritsch C, Taub E, Birbaumer N. The thought translation device: a neurophysiological approach to communication in total motor paralysis. Exp Brain Res 124(2):223-32, 1999 pdf.

Steady State Visual Evoked Potentials

• Original Publication: Vidal JJ. Toward direct brain-computer communication. Annu Rev Biophys, 2:157-180, 1973. pdf

• The Chinese Champions: Cheng M, Gao X, Gao S, Xu D. Design and implementation of a brain-computer interface with high transfer rates. IEEE Trans Biomed Eng 2002 Oct;49(10):1181-6 pdf.

• Independent of Eye Gaze (1): Allison BZ, McFarland DJ, Schalk G, Zheng SD, Jackson MM, Wolpaw JR. Towards an independent brain-computer interface using steady state visual evoked potentials. Clin Neurophysiol 119(2):399-408, 2008.

• Independent of Eye Gaze (2): Zhang D, Maye A, Gao X, Hong B, Engel AK, Gao S. An independent brain-computer interface using covert non-spatial visual selective attention. J Neural Eng 2010 Feb;7(1):16010 pdf.

Matrix Speller (ERP-based)

• Farwell LA, Donchin E. Talking off the top of your head: toward a mental prosthesis utilizing event-related brain potentials. Electroencephalogr Clin Neurophysiol, 70:510-523, 1988 pdf.

Modulation of Sensorimotor Rythms (SMRs)

• Motor Imagery: Guger C, Ramoser H, Pfurtscheller G. Real-time EEG analysis with subject-specific spatial patterns for a brain-computer interface (BCI). IEEE Trans Rehabil Eng 2000 Dec;8(4):447-56 pdf.

• Motor Imagery & Operant Learning: Wolpaw JR, McFarland DJ, Vaughan TM. Brain-computer interface research at the Wadsworth Center. IEEE Trans Rehab Eng, 8(2):222-226, 2000 pdf.

• 2D Cursor Control: Wolpaw JR, McFarland DJ. Control of a two-dimensional movement signal by a noninvasive brain-computer interface in humans. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA, 101(51):17849-17854, 2004. pdf
  Note: 2D BCI control was already achieved in 1994, see Electroencephalogr Clin Neurophysiol. 1994 abstract.

BCI Groups

Fondazione Santa Lucia

• members: Febo Cincotti, Donatella Mattia, Fabio Aloise, Luigi Bianchi, Lucia Quitadamo, Angela Riccio, Annalisa Bononati, Floriana Pichiorri, Monica Risetti
• homepage: ---
• paradigms: P300, SSVEP, SMR
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• research focus: assistive robots, domotics, software, standardization
• key publication: Febo Cincotti, Lucia Rita Quitadamo, Fabio Aloise, Luigi Bianchi, Fabio Babiloni, Donatella Mattia: Interacting with the Environment through Non-invasive Brain-Computer Interfaces. HCI (6) 2009: 483-492

BrainGain Consortium

Radboud Universiteit / FC Donders, Nijmegen

• key members: Peter Desain, Rebecca Schaeffer, Robert Oostenveld, Ole Jensen
• homepage:
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Twente University

• key members: Anton Nijholt, Femke Nijboer
• homepage:
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• research focus: Applied BCI, serious gaming
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Utrecht University

• key members: Nick Ramsey, Dora Hermes
• homepage:
• paradigms: Invasive, ECoG
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Maastricht University

• key members: Rainer Goebel
• homepage:
• paradigms: fMRI
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TNO

• key members: Jan van Erp, Anne-Marie Brouwer, Marieke Thurlings

• homepage: http://www.tno.nl/content.cfm?context=kennis&content=techno&laag1=37&item_id=37

• paradigms: Mainly P300 and SSEP
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• research focus: Tactile interfaces. Applied BCI.
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Singapore BCI lab

• key members: Cuntai Guan, Kai Keng Ang, Fabien Pierre Robert Lotte, Haihong Zhang

• homepage: http://nsp.i2r.a-star.edu.sg/

• paradigms: P300, MI
• methods: CSP, SVMs, NIRS-BCI

• research focus: methodology (CSP-extensions, NIRS-BCI, MI+ERP, asynchronous BCI) & application (e.g. Wheelchair, ADHS, epilepsy)!

• key publications: Ranganatha Sitaram (Neuroimage, 2007); Yuanqing Li (IEEE TBE, 2010); Fabien Lotte (IEEE TBE, 2010)
• general comments: quite a big BCI group focusing methodology and various applications of noninvasive BCI. Collaboration with the Tübingen group (NIRS-BCI). In the BCI field since about 2006.

BBCI Projects

• BCI I-III: [w/Charite]

• AUGCOG: [w/Charite, Daimler] Quantification of 'mental workload' during (real!) car driving on a highway. One possible application is the usage in the development of novel car features: In test drivers, it may be verified that devices, like navigation systems, do not increase the mental workload during driving. For more details, see pdf

• FaSor: [w/Charite, Daimler, Brain Products]

• Vital-BCI: [w/U Würzburg]

• brain@work: [w/Charite, Siemens, Daimler]

• TOBI: [w/several european partners] BCI application areas for patients: Communication, Motor Substitution, Entertainment, Rehabilitation

• BFNT-A1: [w/Charite]

• BFNT-A3: [w/Charite, T-Labs]

• BFNT-B4: [w/BNIC,Charite]

Analysis Techniques

To be added: Links to certain 'case analyses' of the toolbox documentation (which does not exist yet).