Different Effects of Using Pictures As Stimuli in a P300 Brain-computer Interface Under Rapid Serial Visual Presentation or Row-column Paradigm

Overview

Journal Med Biol Eng Comput

Publisher Springer

Specialties Biomedical Engineering
Medical Informatics

Date 2021 Mar 20

PMID 33742353

Citations 4

Authors

Alvaro Fernandez-Rodriguez

Maria Teresa Medina-Julia

Francisco Velasco-Alvarez

Ricardo Ron-Angevin

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Abstract

Previous proposals for controlling a P300-based BCI speller have shown an improvement using alternative images instead of letters as target stimuli under a row-column paradigm (RCP). However, the RCP is not suitable for those patients with a lack of gaze control. To solve that, the rapid serial visual presentation (RSVP) paradigm has been proposed in previous studies. The aim of the present work is to assess if a set of alternative pictures that improved performance in RCP could also improve performance in RSVP. Sixteen participants controlled four conditions in calibration and online tasks: letters in RCP, pictures in RCP, letters in RSVP and pictures in RSVP. The effect given by pictures was greater under RCP than under RSVP, both for performance and event-related potential analyses. Indeed, pictures did not show any improvement under RSVP in comparison to letters. In addition, the condition with pictures under RCP was declared the favourite by most users (68.75%), while the condition with pictures under RSVP was not chosen as favourite by any participant. Therefore, this work shows that the improvement related to the use of pictures as alternative flashing stimuli under RCP may not be transferred to RSVP. Graphical abstract.

Citing Articles

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