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Single trial detection of spatial covert visual attention for BCI

José del Rocio Millán Ruiz, Robert Leeb, Luca Tonin
2011
Conference Papers

Abstract

This paper discusses a time-dependent classification approach for single trial recognition of spatial covert visual attention for Brain–Computer Interface. Covert visual attention is a natural and intuitive mental task that does not require any external stimulation. The possibility to recognize it from single trials is essential for a future online close-loop BCI. Experimental results indicate the feasibility of the proposed approach and its high performance in an offline study. We achieved an accuracy of 84.1±8.9% with a rejection of 6.5±6.6% averaged across subjects.

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José del Rocio Millán Ruiz, Robert Leeb, Luca Tonin
2011
Conference Papers

Abstract

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https://infoscience.epfl.ch/entities/publication/c77a373f-066f-4b40-932d-11dcf1de016e

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Attention is the concentration of awareness on some phenomenon to the exclusion of other stimuli. It is a process of selectively concentrating on a discrete aspect of information, whether considered subjective or objective. William James (1890) wrote that "Attention is the taking possession by the mind, in clear and vivid form, of one out of what seem several simultaneously possible objects or trains of thought. Focalization, concentration, of consciousness are of its essence.

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A brain–computer interface (BCI), sometimes called a brain–machine interface (BMI) or smartbrain, is a direct communication pathway between the brain's electrical activity and an external device, most commonly a computer or robotic limb. BCIs are often directed at researching, mapping, assisting, augmenting, or repairing human cognitive or sensory-motor functions. They are often conceptualized as a human–machine interface that skips the intermediary component of the physical movement of body parts, although they also raise the possibility of the erasure of the discreteness of brain and machine.

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The visual system comprises the sensory organ (the eye) and parts of the central nervous system (the retina containing photoreceptor cells, the optic nerve, the optic tract and the visual cortex) which gives organisms the sense of sight (the ability to detect and process visible light) as well as enabling the formation of several non-image photo response functions. It detects and interprets information from the optical spectrum perceptible to that species to "build a representation" of the surrounding environment.

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