General information

g.tec invites you to participate in our brain-computer interface (BCI) workshop on June 9, 2010 during the 2010 OHBM Conference in Barcelona, Spain. A BCI is a direct communication pathway between the brain and an external device. Such BCI systems use either the EEG, the ECoG or single spike activity as input signals. These signals are amplified and digitized and are transmitted to a computer system for signal processing. On the computer parameter estimation and classification algorithms as well as an experimental paradigm have to work in real-time. Applications range from spelling, wheelchair control, robot control to Virtual Reality control.

The main focus of the g.tec BCI workshops 2010 will be to show you all 4 concepts that are used around the world to realize such a BCI system: (i) motor imagery, (ii) steady-state-visual evoked potentials (SSVEP), (iii) P300 and (iv) slow cortical potential (SCP). In the workshop all components of a BCI system will be explained: active and passive electrodes, different biosignal amplifiers with digitization, real-time processing system, signal processing algorithms and training paradigms.

Also the first BCI system for patient usage will be demonstrated and discussed at the workshop (www.intendix.com)

The following experiments will be conducted in real-time:

-Real-time analysis of P300: Spelling with the BCI

-Real-time analysis of SSVEPs: Robot control   

Especially the real-time experiments will show you in detail the required components and steps to successfully perform BCI studies. This will speed up your own research.

Two excellent Talks about BCI are presented:

Turning thoughts into actions and=20 communication: fMRI of the Vegetative State
Martin M Monti, PhD
MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Cambridge UK

Two applications of BCI:
-On the study of body representation
-On dissemination of Neuroscience for the general public
Maria Victoria Sánchez Vives
Institut d'Investigacions Biomèdiques August Pi i Sunyer