https://sccn.ucsd.edu/eeglab/download/eeglab_jnm03.pdf

EEGLAB: an open source toolbox for analysis of single-trial EEG dynamics including independent component analysis.

THE DESIGN AND ANALYSIS OF EXPERIMENTS. By Oscar Kempthorne. New York, John Wiley and Sons, Inc., 1952. 631 pp. $8.50. This book by a teacher of statistics (as well as a consultant for \"experimenters\") is a comprehensive study of the philosophical background for the statistical design of experiment. It is necessary to have some facility with algebraic notation and manipulation to be able to use the volume intelligently. The problems are presented from the theoretical point of view, without such practical examples as would be helpful for those not acquainted with mathematics. The mathematical justification for the techniques is given. As a somewhat advanced treatment of the design and analysis of experiments, this volume will be interesting and helpful for many who approach statistics theoretically as well as practically. With emphasis on the \"why,\" and with description given broadly, the author relates the subject matter to the general theory of statistics and to the general problem of experimental inference. MARGARET J. ROBERTSON

The Design and Analysis of Experiments

Co-Planar Stereotaxic Atlas of the Human Brain—3-Dimensional Proportional System: An Approach to Cerebral Imaging, J. Talairach, P. Tournoux. Georg Thieme Verlag, New York (1988), 122 pp., 130 figs. DM 268

I have developed "tennis elbow" from lugging this book around the past four weeks, but it is worth the pain, the effort, and the aspirin. It is also worth the (relatively speaking) bargain price. Including appendixes, this book contains 894 pages of text. The entire panorama of the neural sciences is surveyed and examined, and it is comprehensive in its scope, from genomes to social behaviors. The editors explicitly state that the book is designed as "an introductory text for students of biology, behavior, and medicine," but it is hard to imagine any audience, interested in any fragment of neuroscience at any level of sophistication, that would not enjoy this book. The editors have done a masterful job of weaving together the biologic, the behavioral, and the clinical sciences into a single tapestry in which everyone from the molecular biologist to the practicing psychiatrist can find and appreciate his or

Principles of Neural Science

Brain-computer interfaces for communication and control.

Cardiovascular responses after brisk finger movement and their dependency on the "eigenfrequency" of the baroreflex loop.

A high spinal cord injured tetraplegic patient was able to generate bursts of beta oscillations in the EEG by imagination of foot movements [1]. Only one single EEG channel was analyzed and classified sample-by-sample by a Brain-Computer Interface (BCI) and used asynchronously to control a virtual environment (VE). The used VE was a virtual street populated with 15 avatars [2]. The patient was placed with his wheelchair in the middle of a 4-wall-projection CAVE and his task was to “walk” towards the end of the virtual street by movement imagination of his paralyzed feet. Every time he was passing by an avatar he had to stop very close to it. The avatar started talking to the patient if he was standing still for one second. After a while, by free will, the subject could imagine the next foot movement and started walking again, till the end of the street was reached.

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EEG-based "walking" of a tretraplegic in virtual reality

"Brain Switch" BCI System Based On EEG During Foot Movement Imagery

A report is given on the realization of a steering mechanism of a hand orthosis for a patient with paraplegia. An EEG-based Brain-Computer Interface (BCI) was used here for the first time, transferring purely mental activity to a control signal. This means that the patient has the capability to open or close the hand orthosis only by imagination of a movement. At this time, after a training period of about four months, the patient is able to move the hand orthosis with a certainty of almost hundred percent. The restored grasp function was verified by a grasp function test. Results are compared to those obtained using a conventional EMG-controlled orthosis.

Mentale Handorthesensteuerung über das EEG: Eine Fallstudie

This paper describes a paralyzed patient diagnosed with severe infantile cerebral palsy, trained over a period of several months to use an EEG-based brain-computer interface (BCI) for verbal communication. The patient learned to "produce" two distinct EEG patterns by mental imagery and to use this skill for BCI-controlled spelling. The EEG feedback training was conducted at a clinic for Assisted Communications, supervised from a distant laboratory with the help of a telemonitoring system. As a function of training sessions significant learning progress was found, resulting in an average accuracy level of 70% correct responses for letter selection. At present, "copy spelling" can be performed with a rate of approximately one letter per minute. The proposed communication device, the "Virtual Keyboard", may improve actual levels of communication ability in completely paralyzed patients. "Telemonitoring-assisted" training facilitates clinical application in a larger number of patients.

Gert Pfurtscheller

Papers

Cardiovascular responses after brisk finger movement and their dependency on the "eigenfrequency" of the baroreflex loop.

EEG-based "walking" of a tretraplegic in virtual reality

"Brain Switch" BCI System Based On EEG During Foot Movement Imagery

Mentale Handorthesensteuerung über das EEG: Eine Fallstudie

[EEG-based communication--a new concept for rehabilitative support in patients with severe motor impairment].