Towards a truly mobile auditory brain-computer interface: Exploring the P300 to take away
Towards a truly mobile auditory brain-computer interface: Exploring the P300 to take away
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DOI:
10.1016/j.ijpsycho.2013.08.010
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发表时间:
2014-01-01
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3
通讯作者:
Debener, Stefan
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作者:
De Vos, Maarten;Gandras, Katharina;Debener, Stefan
In a previous study we presented a low-cost, small, and wireless 14-channel EEG system suitable for field recordings (Debener et al., 2012, psychophysiology). In the present follow-up study we investigated whether a single-trial P300 response can be reliably measured with this system, while subjects freely walk outdoors. Twenty healthy participants performed a three-class auditory oddball task, which included rare target and non-target distractor stimuli presented with equal probabilities of 16%. Data were recorded in a seated (control condition) and in a walking condition, both of which were realized outdoors. A significantly larger P300 event-related potential amplitude was evident for targets compared to distractors (p < .001), but no significant interaction with recording condition emerged. P300 single-trial analysis was performed with regularized stepwise linear discriminant analysis and revealed above chance-level classification accuracies for most participants (19 out of 20 for the seated, 16 out of 20 for the walking condition), with mean classification accuracies of 71% (seated) and 64% (walking). Moreover, the resulting information transfer rates for the seated and walking conditions were comparable to a recently published laboratory auditory brain-computer interface (BC!) study. This leads us to conclude that a truly mobile auditory BCI system is feasible. (C) 2013 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.