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Towards an Auditory Attention BCI

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People affected by severe neuro-degenerative diseases (e.g., late-stage amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) or locked-in syndrome) eventually lose all muscular control and are no longer able to gesture or speak. For this population, an auditory BCI is one of only a few remaining means of communication. All currently used auditory BCIs require a relatively artificial mapping between a stimulus and a communication output. This mapping is cumbersome to learn and use. Recent studies suggest that electrocorticographic (ECoG) signals in the gamma band (i.e., 70–170 Hz) can be used to infer the identity of auditory speech stimuli, effectively removing the need to learn such an artificial mapping. However, BCI systems that use this physiological mechanism for communication purposes have not yet been described. In this study, we explore this possibility by implementing a BCI2000-based real-time system that uses ECoG signals to identify the attended speaker.

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  • Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis
  • Superior Temporal Gyrus
  • Middle Temporal Gyrus
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This work was supported by the NIH (EB006356 (GS), EB00856 (GS) and EB018783 (GS)), the US Army Research Office (W911NF-07-1-0415 (GS), W911NF-08-1-0216 (GS) and W911NF-14-1-0440 (GS)) and Fondazione Neurone.

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  1. New York State Department of Health, Center for Adaptive Neurotechnology, Wadsworth Center, Albany, NY, USA

    Peter Brunner, Karen Dijkstra, William G. Coon & Gerwin Schalk

  2. Department of Neurology, Albany Medical College, Albany, NY, USA

    Peter Brunner, Anthony L. Ritaccio & Gerwin Schalk

  3. Institute of Medical Psychology and Behavioral Neurobiology, University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany

    Jürgen Mellinger

  4. Department of Artificial Intelligence, Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour, Nijmegen, The Netherlands

    Karen Dijkstra

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  3. Cognitive Science Dept., UC San Diego, La Jolla, California, USA

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Brunner, P., Dijkstra, K., Coon, W.G., Mellinger, J., Ritaccio, A.L., Schalk, G. (2015). Towards an Auditory Attention BCI. In: Guger, C., Müller-Putz, G., Allison, B. (eds) Brain-Computer Interface Research. SpringerBriefs in Electrical and Computer Engineering. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-25190-5_4

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