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Trial reportPloS one2017

A comparison of stimulus types in online classification of the P300 speller using language models.

William Speier, Aniket Deshpande, Lucy Cui, Nand Chandravadia, Dustin Roberts, Nader Pouratian

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In one paragraph

Trial report in PloS one, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 13 papers.

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13citing papers in PubMed
2.2field-weighted citation impact, top 12% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

13 citing papers in PubMed, 29 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

William SpeierDepartment of Neurosurgery, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, United States of America.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-0890-8684
Aniket DeshpandeDepartment of Bioengineering, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, United States of America.
Lucy CuiNeuroscience Interdepartmental Program, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, United States of America.
Nand ChandravadiaNeuroscience Interdepartmental Program, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, United States of America.
Dustin RobertsDepartment of Neurosurgery, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, United States of America.
Nader PouratianDepartment of Neurosurgery, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, United States of America.
University of California, Los Angeles · US

Funding

Electrophysiologic and Anatomic Basis of BOLD fMRIK23EB014326 · NIBIB · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA LOS ANGELES · PI POURATIAN, NADER · 2012 to 2016
$946k
NIBIB NIH HHS K23 EB014326
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The P300 Speller is a common brain-computer interface communication system. There are many parallel lines of research underway to overcome the system's low signal to noise ratio and thereby improve performance, including using famous face stimuli and integrating language information into the classifier. While both have been shown separately to provide significant improvements, the two methods have not yet been implemented together to demonstrate that the improvements are complimentary. The goal of this study is therefore twofold. First, we aim to compare the famous faces stimulus paradigm with an existing alternative stimulus paradigm currently used in commercial systems (i.e., character inversion). Second, we test these methods with language model integration to assess whether different optimization approaches can be combined to further improve BCI communication. In offline analysis using a previously published particle filter method, famous faces stimuli yielded superior results to both standard and inverting stimuli. In online trials using the particle filter method, all 10 subjects achieved a higher selection rate when using the famous faces flashing paradigm than when using inverting flashes. The improvements achieved by these methods are therefore complementary and a combination yields superior results to either method implemented individually when tested in healthy subjects.

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Brain-Computer InterfacesElectroencephalographyLanguageModels, TheoreticalAdultFemaleHumansMale

Identifiers

PMID28406932
PMCPMC5391014
OpenAlexW2607431056

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