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Using Brain–Computer Interfaces and Brain-State Dependent Stimulation as Tools in Cognitive Neuroscience

Overview of attention for article published in Frontiers in Psychology, January 2011
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Title
Using Brain–Computer Interfaces and Brain-State Dependent Stimulation as Tools in Cognitive Neuroscience
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Frontiers in Psychology, January 2011
DOI 10.3389/fpsyg.2011.00100
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Authors

Ole Jensen, Ali Bahramisharif, Robert Oostenveld, Stefan Klanke, Avgis Hadjipapas, Yuka O. Okazaki, Marcel A. J. van Gerven

Abstract

Large efforts are currently being made to develop and improve online analysis of brain activity which can be used, e.g., for brain-computer interfacing (BCI). A BCI allows a subject to control a device by willfully changing his/her own brain activity. BCI therefore holds the promise as a tool for aiding the disabled and for augmenting human performance. While technical developments obviously are important, we will here argue that new insight gained from cognitive neuroscience can be used to identify signatures of neural activation which reliably can be modulated by the subject at will. This review will focus mainly on oscillatory activity in the alpha band which is strongly modulated by changes in covert attention. Besides developing BCIs for their traditional purpose, they might also be used as a research tool for cognitive neuroscience. There is currently a strong interest in how brain-state fluctuations impact cognition. These state fluctuations are partly reflected by ongoing oscillatory activity. The functional role of the brain state can be investigated by introducing stimuli in real-time to subjects depending on the actual state of the brain. This principle of brain-state dependent stimulation may also be used as a practical tool for augmenting human behavior. In conclusion, new approaches based on online analysis of ongoing brain activity are currently in rapid development. These approaches are amongst others informed by new insight gained from electroencephalography/magnetoencephalography studies in cognitive neuroscience and hold the promise of providing new ways for investigating the brain at work.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Netherlands 4 2%
United States 4 2%
Switzerland 3 1%
Germany 3 1%
France 3 1%
Canada 2 <1%
Brazil 1 <1%
United Kingdom 1 <1%
Belgium 1 <1%
Other 3 1%
Unknown 181 88%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Researcher 49 24%
Student > Ph. D. Student 45 22%
Student > Master 30 15%
Student > Postgraduate 14 7%
Professor > Associate Professor 11 5%
Other 32 16%
Unknown 25 12%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Neuroscience 42 20%
Psychology 31 15%
Computer Science 29 14%
Engineering 23 11%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 17 8%
Other 29 14%
Unknown 35 17%
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#52,842
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#123
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