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Online Adaptation of a c-VEP Brain-Computer Interface(BCI) Based on Error-Related Potentials and Unsupervised Learning

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Title
Online Adaptation of a c-VEP Brain-Computer Interface(BCI) Based on Error-Related Potentials and Unsupervised Learning
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PLOS ONE, December 2012
DOI 10.1371/journal.pone.0051077
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Martin Spüler, Wolfgang Rosenstiel, Martin Bogdan

Abstract

The goal of a Brain-Computer Interface (BCI) is to control a computer by pure brain activity. Recently, BCIs based on code-modulated visual evoked potentials (c-VEPs) have shown great potential to establish high-performance communication. In this paper we present a c-VEP BCI that uses online adaptation of the classifier to reduce calibration time and increase performance. We compare two different approaches for online adaptation of the system: an unsupervised method and a method that uses the detection of error-related potentials. Both approaches were tested in an online study, in which an average accuracy of 96% was achieved with adaptation based on error-related potentials. This accuracy corresponds to an average information transfer rate of 144 bit/min, which is the highest bitrate reported so far for a non-invasive BCI. In a free-spelling mode, the subjects were able to write with an average of 21.3 error-free letters per minute, which shows the feasibility of the BCI system in a normal-use scenario. In addition we show that a calibration of the BCI system solely based on the detection of error-related potentials is possible, without knowing the true class labels.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
United States 4 3%
Germany 3 2%
Malaysia 1 <1%
Netherlands 1 <1%
Hungary 1 <1%
Belgium 1 <1%
Italy 1 <1%
Russia 1 <1%
Poland 1 <1%
Other 0 0%
Unknown 144 91%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 46 29%
Student > Master 25 16%
Researcher 16 10%
Student > Bachelor 14 9%
Student > Doctoral Student 13 8%
Other 21 13%
Unknown 23 15%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Engineering 51 32%
Computer Science 36 23%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 13 8%
Neuroscience 10 6%
Psychology 8 5%
Other 12 8%
Unknown 28 18%
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