Dr. Koichi Mori (Research Institute of National Rehabilitation Center for Persons with Disabilities)
Prof. Shoji Makino (University of Tsukuba)
Scope
This study provides a comprehensive test of the head–related impulse response (HRIR) to an auditory spatial speller brain–computer interface (BCI) paradigm, including a comparison with a conventional virtual headphone–based spatial auditory modality. Five BCI–naive users participated in an experiment based on five Japanese vowels. The auditory evoked potentials obtained produced encouragingly good and stable P300–responses in online BCI experiments. Our case study indicates that the auditory HRIR spatial sound paradigm reproduced with headphones could be a viable alternative to established multi–loudspeaker surround sound BCI–speller applications.
Publications
Nakaizumi C. Auditory Brain-computer Interface Paradigm with Head Related Impulse Response-based Spatial Cues [Bachelor Degree Thesis]. School of Informatics - University of Tsukuba. Tsukuba, Japan; 2014.
The research was supported in part by the Strategic Information and Communications R&D Promotion Program (SCOPE) no. 121803027 of The Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications in Japan.