TY - JOUR
T1 - Daily training with realistic visual feedback improves reproducibility of event-related desynchronisation following hand motor imagery
AU - Ono, Takashi
AU - Kimura, Akio
AU - Ushiba, Junichi
N1 - Funding Information:
This study was partially supported by the Strategic Research Program for Brain Sciences (SRPBS) of the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science, and Technology, Japan .
PY - 2013/9
Y1 - 2013/9
N2 - Objective: Few brain-computer interface (BCI) studies have addressed learning mechanisms by exposure to visual feedback that elicits scalp electroencephalogram. We examined the effect of realistic visual feedback of hand movement associated with sensorimotor rhythm. Methods: Thirty-two healthy participants performed in five daily training in which they were shown motor imagery of their dominant hand. Participants were randomly assigned to 1 of 4 experimental groups receiving different types of visual feedback on event-related desynchronisation (ERD) derived over the contralateral sensorimotor cortex: no feedback as a control, bar feedback with changing bar length, anatomically incongruent feedback in which the hand open/grasp picture on screen was animated at eye level, and anatomically congruent feedback in which the same hand open/grasp picture was animated on the screen overlaying the participant's hand. Results: Daily training with all types of visual feedback induced more robust ERD than the no feedback condition (p < 0.05). The anatomically congruent feedback produced the highest reproducibility of ERD with the smallest inter-trial variance (p < 0.05). Conclusion: Realistic feedback training is a suitable method to acquire the skill to control a BCI system. Significance: This finding highlights the possibility of improvement of reproducibility of ERD and can help to use BCI techniques.
AB - Objective: Few brain-computer interface (BCI) studies have addressed learning mechanisms by exposure to visual feedback that elicits scalp electroencephalogram. We examined the effect of realistic visual feedback of hand movement associated with sensorimotor rhythm. Methods: Thirty-two healthy participants performed in five daily training in which they were shown motor imagery of their dominant hand. Participants were randomly assigned to 1 of 4 experimental groups receiving different types of visual feedback on event-related desynchronisation (ERD) derived over the contralateral sensorimotor cortex: no feedback as a control, bar feedback with changing bar length, anatomically incongruent feedback in which the hand open/grasp picture on screen was animated at eye level, and anatomically congruent feedback in which the same hand open/grasp picture was animated on the screen overlaying the participant's hand. Results: Daily training with all types of visual feedback induced more robust ERD than the no feedback condition (p < 0.05). The anatomically congruent feedback produced the highest reproducibility of ERD with the smallest inter-trial variance (p < 0.05). Conclusion: Realistic feedback training is a suitable method to acquire the skill to control a BCI system. Significance: This finding highlights the possibility of improvement of reproducibility of ERD and can help to use BCI techniques.
KW - Brain-computer interface
KW - Event-related desynchronisation
KW - Motor imagery
KW - Realistic feedback
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U2 - 10.1016/j.clinph.2013.03.006
DO - 10.1016/j.clinph.2013.03.006
M3 - Article
C2 - 23643578
AN - SCOPUS:84881118821
VL - 124
SP - 1779
EP - 1786
JO - Electroencephalography and Clinical Neurophysiology - Electromyography and Motor Control
JF - Electroencephalography and Clinical Neurophysiology - Electromyography and Motor Control
SN - 1388-2457
IS - 9
ER -