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MATLAB-Based Tools for BCI Research

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We first discuss two MATLAB-centered solutions for real-time data streaming, the environments FieldTrip (Donders Institute, Nijmegen) and DataSuite (Data- River, Producer, MatRiver) (Swartz Center, La Jolla). We illustrate the relative simplicity of coding BCI feature extraction and classification under MATLAB (The Mathworks, Inc.) using a minimalist BCI example, and then describe BCILAB (Team PhyPa, Berlin), a new BCI package that uses the data structures and extends the capabilities of the widely used EEGLAB signal processing environment. We finally review the range of standalone and MATLAB-based software currently freely available to BCI researchers.

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  1. Swartz Center for Computational Neuroscience, Institute for Neural Computation, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA, USA

    Arnaud Delorme, Andrey Vankov, Nima Bigdely-Shamlo & Scott Makeig

  2. UPS, Centre de Recherche Cerveau et Cognition, Université de Toulouse, Toulouse, France

    Arnaud Delorme

  3. CNRS, CerCo, Toulouse, France

    Arnaud Delorme

  4. Team PhyPA, TU Berlin, Berlin, Germany

    Christian Kothe & Thorsten O. Zander

  5. Department of Psychology and Ergonomics, Chair Human-Machine Systems, Berlin Institute of Technology, Berlin, Germany

    Christian Kothe & Thorsten O. Zander

  6. Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour, Radboud University Nijmegen, Nijmegen, The Netherlands

    Robert Oostenveld

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  2. Fac. Electrical Engineering,, Mathematics &Computer Science, University of Twente, Enschede, Netherlands

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Delorme, A. et al. (2010). MATLAB-Based Tools for BCI Research. In: Tan, D., Nijholt, A. (eds) Brain-Computer Interfaces. Human-Computer Interaction Series. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-84996-272-8_14

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