Auditory feedback for brain computer interface management: an EEG data sonification approach

  • Authors:
  • Tomasz M. Rutkowski;Francois Vialatte;Andrzej Cichocki;Danilo P. Mandic;Allan Kardec Barros

  • Affiliations:
  • Laboratory for Advanced Brain Signal Processing, Brain Science Institute RIKEN, Japan;Laboratory for Advanced Brain Signal Processing, Brain Science Institute RIKEN, Japan;Laboratory for Advanced Brain Signal Processing, Brain Science Institute RIKEN, Japan;Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Imperial College London, United Kingdom;Laboratory for Biological Information Processing, Universidade Federal do Maranhāo, Brazil

  • Venue:
  • KES'06 Proceedings of the 10th international conference on Knowledge-Based Intelligent Information and Engineering Systems - Volume Part III
  • Year:
  • 2006

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Abstract

An auditory feedback for Brain Computer Interface (BCI) applications is proposed. This is achieved based on the so-called sonification of the mental states of humans, captured by Electro-Encephalogram (EEG) recordings. Two time-frequency signal decomposition techniques, the Bump Modelling and Empirical Mode Decomposition (EMD), are used to map the EEG recordings onto musical scores. This auditory feedback proves to have extremely high potential in the development of on-line BCI interfaces. Examples based on the responses from visual stimuli support the analysis.