EEG auditory steady state responses classification for the novel BCI

An auditory modality brain computer interface (BCI) is a novel and interesting paradigm in neurotechnology applications. The paper presents a concept of auditory steady state responses (ASSR) utilization for the novel BCI paradigm. Two EEG feature extraction approaches based on a bandpass filtering and an AR spectrum estimation are tested together with two classification schemes in order to validate the proposed auditory BCI paradigm. The resulting good classification scores of users intentional choices, of attending or not to the presented stimuli, support the hypothesis of the ASSR stimuli validity for a solid BCI paradigm.

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