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Learning Motor Imagery under EEG-Directed Neuromuscular Stimulation Inducing Congruent and Incongruent Wrist Movements

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The effectiveness of the feedback in the form of the functional electrical stimulation (FES) that induces flexion and extension of the fingers for the acquisition of the skill of imagining the corresponding movements in the brain–computer interface (BCI) depending on the degree of similarity between the imaginary and real movements has been investigated. The study involved 36 healthy volunteers. It has been found that the two types of feedback in the form of congruent and non-congruent motions induced by FES contributed to the development of the movement representation skill, with the non-congruent reinforcement having a more significant effect. In addition, the possibility of creating effective training complexes for the recovery of motor function after stroke or neurotrauma based on BCI–FES hybrid complexes has been discussed.

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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

Particular gratitude is acknowledged to Uri Olegovich Nuzhdin for his help in the development of the software used in the study and to Anatoly Nikolaevich Vasilev for his contribution to data processing and analysis. We are grateful to A.U. Gorovaya and I.A. Basyula for their help in the experimental part of the study and technical installations.

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This study was supported by the Foundation for Assistance to Small Innovative Enterprises in Science and Technology (Umnik Grant, project no. 11420GU/2017) and partly by the Center for Bioelectric Interfaces of Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience of the Higher School of Economics National Research University, Moscow (project no. 14.641.31.0003).

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    E. Yu. Morozova & A. Ya. Kaplan

  2. Pirogov Russian National Research Medical University, Moscow, Russia

    D. V. Skvortsov

  3. National Research University Higher School of Economics, Moscow, Russia

    A. Ya. Kaplan

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Morozova, E.Y., Skvortsov, D.V. & Kaplan, A.Y. Learning Motor Imagery under EEG-Directed Neuromuscular Stimulation Inducing Congruent and Incongruent Wrist Movements. Hum Physiol 45, 378–382 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1134/S0362119719040121

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