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Trial reportBMC research notes2012

Automatic single-trial discrimination of mental arithmetic, mental singing and the no-control state from prefrontal activity: toward a three-state NIRS-BCI.

Sarah D Power, Azadeh Kushki, Tom Chau

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Trial report in BMC research notes, 2012. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 31 papers.

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31citing papers in PubMed
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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

31 citing papers in PubMed, 105 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. fNIRS-EEG BCIs for Motor Rehabilitation: A Review.Bioengineering (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023
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  11. [Recognition of three different imagined movement of the right foot based on functional near-infrared spectroscopy].Sheng wu yi xue gong cheng xue za zhi = Journal of biomedical engineering = Shengwu yixue gongchengxue zazhi · 2020
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  19. Speech Recognition via fNIRS Based Brain Signals.Frontiers in neuroscience · 2018
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Sarah D PowerBloorview Research Institute, Holland Bloorview Kids Rehabilitation Hospital, Toronto, Canada.
Azadeh Kushki
Tom Chau
Holland Bloorview Kids Rehabilitation Hospital · CA

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

backgroundNear-infrared spectroscopy (NIRS) is an optical imaging technology that has recently been investigated for use in a safe, non-invasive brain-computer interface (BCI) for individuals with severe motor impairments. To date, most NIRS-BCI studies have attempted to discriminate two mental states (e.g., a mental task and rest), which could potentially lead to a two-choice BCI system. In this study, we attempted to automatically differentiate three mental states - specifically, intentional activity due to 1) a mental arithmetic (MA) task and 2) a mental singing (MS) task, and 3) an unconstrained, "no-control (NC)" state - to investigate the feasibility of a three-choice system-paced NIRS-BCI.

resultsDeploying a dual-wavelength frequency domain near-infrared spectrometer, we interrogated nine sites around the frontopolar locations while 7 able-bodied adults performed mental arithmetic and mental singing to answer multiple-choice questions within a system-paced paradigm. With a linear classifier trained on a ten-dimensional feature set, an overall classification accuracy of 56.2% was achieved for the MA vs. MS vs. NC classification problem and all individual participant accuracies significantly exceeded chance (i.e., 33%). However, as anticipated based on results of previous work, the three-class discrimination was unsuccessful for three participants due to the ineffectiveness of the mental singing task. Excluding these three participants increases the accuracy rate to 62.5%. Even without training, three of the remaining four participants achieved accuracies approaching 70%, the value often cited as being necessary for effective BCI communication.

conclusionsThese results are encouraging and demonstrate the potential of a three-state system-paced NIRS-BCI with two intentional control states corresponding to mental arithmetic and mental singing.

Indexed as

Brain-Computer InterfacesAdultDiscrimination, PsychologicalFemaleHumansMaleMathematicsMusicPrefrontal CortexPsychomotor PerformanceSignal Processing, Computer-AssistedSingingSpectroscopy, Near-InfraredSurveys and QuestionnairesYoung Adult

Identifiers

PMID22414111
PMCPMC3359174
OpenAlexW2062500193

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