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Using BCI2000 in BCI Research

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BCI2000 is a general-purpose system for brain–computer interface (BCI) research. It can also be used for data acquisition, stimulus presentation, and brain monitoring applications [18,27]. The mission of the BCI2000 project is to facilitate research and applications in these areas. BCI2000 has been in development since 2000 in a collaboration between the Wadsworth Center of the New York State Department of Health in Albany, New York, and the Institute of Medical Psychology and Behavioral Neurobiology at the University of Tübingen, Germany. Many other individuals at different institutions world-wide have contributed to this project.

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    We have comprehensively tested BCI2000 on Windows NT, Windows 2000, and Windows XP. While BCI2000 functions well under Windows Vista, Vista’s timing performance, in particular with regards to audio and video output, is reduced compared to Windows XP.

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Acknowledgments

BCI2000 has been in development since 2000. Since the project’s inception, Gerwin Schalk has been responsible for the direction and implementation of the project. Dennis McFarland and Thilo Hinterberger contributed greatly to the initial system design and its implementation, and Drs. Wolpaw and Birbaumer provided support and useful advice in earlier stages of this project. Since 2002, Jürgen Mellinger has been responsible for software design and architecture. Since 2004, Adam Wilson and Peter Brunner have contributed system components and much needed testing. The following individuals or parties have also contributed to the development of BCI2000 (in alphabetical order):

Erik Aarnoutse, Brendan Allison, Maria Laura Blefari, Simona Bufalari, Bob Cardillo, Febo Cincotti, Joshua Fialkoff, Emanuele Fiorilla, Dario Gaetano, g.tecTM, Sebastian Halder, Jeremy Hill, Jenny Hizver, Sam Inverso, Vaishali Kamat, Dean Krusienski, Marco Mattiocco, Griffin “The Geek” Milsap, Melody M. Moore-Jackson, Yvan Pearson-Lecours, Christian Puzicha, Thomas Schreiner, Chintan Shah, Mark Span, Chris Veigl, Janki Vora, Shi Dong Zheng.

Initial development of BCI2000 has been sponsored by an NIH Bioengineering Research Partnership grant (EB00856) to Jonathan Wolpaw. Current development is sponsored by a NIH R01 grant (EB006356) to Gerwin Schalk.

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  3. Inst. Semantische Datenanalyse, Brain-Computer Interface Labor (BCI), TU Graz, Krenngasse 37/III, Graz, 8010, Austria

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Mellinger, J., Schalk, G. (2009). Using BCI2000 in BCI Research. In: Graimann, B., Pfurtscheller, G., Allison, B. (eds) Brain-Computer Interfaces. The Frontiers Collection. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-02091-9_15

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