Impact of mental focus on steady-state visually evoked potential under eyes closed condition for binary brain computer interface.
The steady-state visually evoked potential (SSVEP), is found to be affected by mental focusing on the stimuli under eyes closed condition. The amplitude d change of the SSVEP in concentrating on flicker stimuli was investigated for a novel brain computer interface (BCI) based on the SSVEP with eyes closed for severely disabilities who were not able to control their eye movement to use conventional SSVEP-based BCIs. The amplitude of the SSVEP in the posterior region was found to be reduced by more than 20 % in 10 out of 11 healthy adults when the subjects concentrated on the flicker stimuli under the conditions of flicker frequency of 10 Hz and stimulus intensity of 5 lx. Such an effect was observed in the occipital region under the condition of 14Hz and 5 lx. These results suggest the possibility of SSVEP-based binary BCI with eyes closed in terms of the mental focus.
Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Yamaguchi University, Ube, 755-8611 Japan. nisifuji@yamaguchi-u.ac.jp
Seiji
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Nishifuji
Takahiko
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Kuroda
D000328:Adult; D001288:Attention / Q000502:physiology*; D062207:Brain-Computer Interfaces; D004566:Electrodes; D005074:Evoked Potentials, Visual / Q000502:physiology*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009799:Ocular Physiological Phenomena; D010775:Photic Stimulation; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D055815:Young Adult