Brain-Computer Interfacing for Intelligent Systems

  • Authors:
  • Anton Nijholt;Desney Tan;Gert Pfurtscheller;Clemens Brunner;José del R. Millán;Brendan Allison;Bernhard Graimann;Florin Popescu;Benjamin Blankertz;Klaus-R. Müller

  • Affiliations:
  • University of Twente;Microsoft Research;Graz University of Technology;Graz University of Technology;Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne (EPFL);University of Bremen;University of Bremen;University of Bremen;Fraunhofer First;Berlin Institute of Technology

  • Venue:
  • IEEE Intelligent Systems
  • Year:
  • 2008

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Abstract

Advances in cognitive neuroscience and brain-imaging technologies give us the unprecedented ability to interface directly with brain activity. These technologies let us monitor physical processes in the brain that correspond with certain forms of thought. Researchers have begun using these technologies to build brain-computer interfaces (BCIs)—communication systems that don't depend on the brain's normal output pathways of peripheral nerves and muscles. Four short articles provide a quick overview of the past, present, and future of BCIs.