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Combining EEG and Serious Games for Attention Assessment of Children with Cerebral Palsy

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Electroencephalography (EEG) is an electrophysiological monitoring method to record the electrical activity of the brain in a not invasive manner, with low cost hardware, using wireless communication and with high temporal resolution. Serious Games (SG) have demonstrated their effectiveness as a therapeutic resource to deal with motor, sensory and cognitive disabilities. We have considered the combination of both techniques for attention assessment in children with cerebral palsy (CP). In this short paper we present a new approach for the development of a SG based on a Brain Computer Interface (BCI).

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This work has been supported by the Spanish Government under project TIN2015-67149-C3-2-R and National Excellent Network DPI2015-69098. The EEG data processing has been done in cooperation with the enterprise Neuroelectrics, http://www.neuroelectrics.com.

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  1. Mathematical and Computer Science Department, University of the Balearic Islands, Palma, Spain

    F. J. Perales & E. Amengual

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  1. Cajal Institute, Spanish National Research Council Cajal Institute, Madrid, Spain

    Jaime Ibáñez

  2. Cajal Institute, Spanish National Research Council Cajal Institute, Madrid, Spain

    José González-Vargas

  3. Avda. de la Universidad s/n, Universidad Miguel Hernández de Elche Avda. de la Universidad s/n, Elche, Spain

    José María Azorín

  4. Cullen College of Engineering, University of Houston Cullen College of Engineering, Houston, USA

    Metin Akay

  5. Cajal Institute, Spanish National Research Council Cajal Institute, Madrid, Spain

    José Luis Pons

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Perales, F.J., Amengual, E. (2017). Combining EEG and Serious Games for Attention Assessment of Children with Cerebral Palsy. In: Ibáñez, J., González-Vargas, J., Azorín, J., Akay, M., Pons, J. (eds) Converging Clinical and Engineering Research on Neurorehabilitation II. Biosystems & Biorobotics, vol 15. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-46669-9_66

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