Brain computer interface communicator: A response to auditory stimuli experiment

摘要

This paper describes a communication system, designed to help people with disabilities to communicate with others. In this case, it is built on Event Related Potentials (ERP) which occur as a response to stimuli. The stimuli are auditory answers to the asked questions, where one of the stimulus is the correct answer. The stimulus which is the possible correct answer is the target stimulus and other stimuli are considered as non-targets. The only reliable information available is the onset of the stimuli, based on this information the spatio-temporal pattern for the target and non-targets is expected to be uncorrelated to the ongoing brain activity and with each other. This allows us to train the spatial filter coefficients for the know targets, so that it can use this trained dataset to correctly classify targets. Results are obtained by optimizing the spatial filter parameters prior to classification, and the classification results are analyzed for several healthy participants.