Brain-Computer Interfaces

Jonathan Wolpaw, MD, is Chief at the Laboratory of Nervous System Disorders at the Wadsworth Center, New York State Department of Health and State University of New York, Albany, NY. Elizabeth Winter Wolpaw, PhD is Professor Emeritus in the Department of Chemistry at Siena College in Albany, NY and Research Associate at the Laboratory of Nervous System Disorders at the Wadsworth Center, New York State Department of Health and State University of New York, Albany, NY.

Contributors ; PART I: INTRODUCTION ; 1. Brain-Computer Interfaces: Something New under the Sun ; Jonathan R. Wolpaw and Elizabeth Winter Wolpaw ; PART II: BRAIN SIGNALS FOR BCIs ; 2. Neuronal Activity in Motor Cortex and Related Areas ; Lee E. Miller and Nicholas Hatsopoulos ; 3. Electric and Magnetic Fields Produced by the Brain ; Paul L. Nunez ; 4. Signals Reflecting Brain Metabolic Activity ; Nick F. Ramsey ; PART III: BCI DESIGN, IMPLEMENTATION, AND OPERATION ; 5. Acquiring Brain Signals from Within the Brain ; Kevin Otto, Kip A. Ludwig, Daryl R. Kipke ; 6. Acquiring Brain Signals from Outside the Brain ; Ramesh Srinivasan ; 7. BCI Signal Processing: Feature Extraction ; Dean J. Krusienski, Dennis J. McFarland, and Jose C. Principe ; 8. BCI Signal Processing: Feature Translation ; Dennis J. McFarland and Dean J. Krusienski ; 9. BCI Hardware and Software ; J. Adam Wilson, Christoph Guger, and Gerwin Schalk ; 10. BCI Operating Protocols ; Steven G. Mason, Brendan Z. Allison, and Jonathan R. Wolpaw ; 11. BCI Applications ; Jane E. Huggins and Debra Zeitlin ; PART IV: EXISTING BCIs ; 12. BCIs that Use P300 Event-Related Potentials ; Eric W. Sellers, Yael Arbel, and Emanuel Donchin ; 13. BCIs that Use Sensorimotor Rhythms ; Gert Pfurtscheller and Dennis J. McFarland ; 14. BCIs that Use Steady-State Visual Evoked Potentials or Slow Cortical Potentials ; Brendan Z. Allison, Josef Faller, and Christa Neuper ; 15. BCIs that Use Electrocorticographic (ECoG) Activity ; Gerwin Schalk ; 16. BCIs that Use Signals Recorded in Motor Cortex ; John P. Donoghue ; 17. BCIs that Use Signals Recorded in Parietal or Premotor Cortex ; Hansjorg Scherberger ; 18. BCIs that Use Brain Metabolic Signals ; Ranganatha Sitaram, Sangkyung Lee, and Niels Birbaumer ; PART V: USING BCIs ; 19. BCI Users and Their Needs ; Leigh R. Hochberg and Kim D. Anderson ; 20. Clinical Evaluation of BCIs ; Theresa M. Vaughan, Eric W. Sellers, and Jonathan R. Wolpaw ; 21. Dissemination: Getting BCIs to the People Who Need Them ; Frances J.R. Richmond and Gerald E. Loeb ; 22. BCI Therapeutic Applications for Improving Brain Function ; Janis J. Daly and Ranganatha Sitaram ; 23. BCI Applications for the General Population ; Benjamin Blankertz, Michael Tangermann, and Klaus-Robert Mu?ller ; 24. Ethical Issues in BCI Research ; Mary-Jane Schneider, Joseph J. Fins, and Jonathan R. Wolpaw ; PART VI: CONCLUSION ; 25. The Future of BCIs: Meeting the Expectations ; Jonathan R. Wolpaw and Elizabeth Winter Wolpaw ; Index