Irene Rechichi
Habit and neural fatigue: a study finalised to the development of a BCI for Locked-In subjects based on Single Trial EEG.
Rel. Gabriella Olmo. Politecnico di Torino, Corso di laurea magistrale in Ingegneria Biomedica, 2019
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Abstract
The Locked-In Syndrome is a medical condition regarding awake subjects that are aware and conscious but are not able to communicate verbally and physically; they are subjected to complete paralysis of almost all voluntary skeletal muscles, except for those who regulate vertical eye movements and eye-blinking. This condition is also described as pseudocoma and is mainly due to ventral pontine injuries. The future aim of this research project is to develop a BCI for single trial EEG analysis, that would be able to recognize specific patterns in the electrical activity of the brain, called movement-related cortical potentials. Among these event-related potentials, those of great interest for this study are readiness potentials, that generate when volitional movements are performed.
The research work was divided into two parts: the experimental data collection and subsequent data analysis
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