Incorporating advanced language models into the P300 speller using particle filtering.

Journal: Journal of neural engineering
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Abstract

OBJECTIVE: The P300 speller is a common brain-computer interface (BCI) application designed to communicate language by detecting event related potentials in a subject's electroencephalogram signal. Information about the structure of natural language can be valuable for BCI communication, but attempts to use this information have thus far been limited to rudimentary n-gram models. While more sophisticated language models are prevalent in natural language processing literature, current BCI analysis methods based on dynamic programming cannot handle their complexity.

Authors

  • W Speier
    Department of Bioengineering, University of California, Los Angeles, CA 90095, USA.
  • C W Arnold
  • A Deshpande
  • J Knall
  • N Pouratian