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Empirical Inference Article 2010

Biased Feedback in Brain-Computer Interfaces

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Empirical Inference
Moritz Grosse-Wentrup
Research Group Leader

Even though feedback is considered to play an important role in learning how to operate a brain-computer interface (BCI), to date no significant influence of feedback design on BCI-performance has been reported in literature. In this work, we adapt a standard motor-imagery BCI-paradigm to study how BCI-performance is affected by biasing the belief subjects have on their level of control over the BCI system. Our findings indicate that subjects already capable of operating a BCI are impeded by inaccurate feedback, while subjects normally performing on or close to chance level may actually benefit from an incorrect belief on their performance level. Our results imply that optimal feedback design in BCIs should take into account a subject‘s current skill level.

Author(s): Barbero, A. and Grosse-Wentrup, M.
Journal: Journal of NeuroEngineering and Rehabilitation
Volume: 7
Number (issue): 34
Pages: 1-4
Year: 2010
Month: July
Day: 0
Bibtex Type: Article (article)
DOI: doi:10.1186/1743-0003-7-34
Digital: 0
Electronic Archiving: grant_archive
Language: en
Organization: Max-Planck-Gesellschaft
School: Biologische Kybernetik
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BibTex 

@article{6684,
  title = {Biased Feedback in Brain-Computer Interfaces},
  journal = {Journal of NeuroEngineering and Rehabilitation},
  abstract = {Even though feedback is considered to play an important role in learning how to operate a brain-computer interface (BCI), to date no significant influence of feedback design on BCI-performance has been reported in literature. In this work, we adapt a standard motor-imagery BCI-paradigm to study how BCI-performance is affected by biasing the belief subjects have on their level of control over the BCI system. Our findings indicate that subjects already capable of operating a BCI are impeded by inaccurate feedback, while subjects normally performing on or close to chance level may actually benefit from an incorrect belief on their performance level. Our results imply that optimal feedback design in BCIs should take into account a subject‘s current skill level.},
  volume = {7},
  number = {34},
  pages = {1-4},
  organization = {Max-Planck-Gesellschaft},
  school = {Biologische Kybernetik},
  month = jul,
  year = {2010},
  slug = {6684},
  author = {Barbero, A. and Grosse-Wentrup, M.},
  month_numeric = {7}
}