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EEG-based Brain-Computer Interface to support post-stroke motor rehabilitation of the upper limbF Cincotti
Neuroelectrical Imaging and BCI Lab, Fondazione Santa Lucia, Rome, Italy
Conf Proc IEEE Eng Med Biol Soc 2012:4112-5. 2012..Preliminary results also suggest that the functional outcome of motor rehabilitation may be improved by the use of the proposed device...
Non-invasive brain-computer interface system: towards its application as assistive technologyFebo Cincotti
Laboratorio di Imaging Neuroelettrico e Brain Computer Interface, Fondazione Santa Lucia, IRCCS, Rome, Italy
Brain Res Bull 75:796-803. 2008..We conclude that such a prototype system, which integrates several different assistive technologies including a BCI system, can potentially facilitate the translation from pre-clinical demonstrations to a clinical useful BCI...
Non-invasive brain-computer interface system to operate assistive devicesFebo Cincotti
Laboratorio di Imaging Neuroelettrico e Brain Computer Interface, Fondazione Santa Lucia, IRCCS, Rome, 00179, Italy
Conf Proc IEEE Eng Med Biol Soc 2007:2532-5. 2007....
Preliminary experimentation on vibrotactile feedback in the context of mu-rhythm based BCIFebo Cincotti
Laboratorio di Imaging Neuroelettrico e Brain Computer Interface, Fondazione Santa Lucia, IRCCS, Rome, 00179, Italy
Conf Proc IEEE Eng Med Biol Soc 2007:4739-42. 2007..Advantages of using a vibrotactile feedback emerged when the visual channel was highly loaded by a complex task...
Cortical connectivity patterns during imagination of limb movements in normal subjects and in a spinal cord injured patientLaura Astolfi
IRCCS, Fondazione Santa Lucia, Rome, Italy
Conf Proc IEEE Eng Med Biol Soc 1:996-9. 2006..An application of the proposed technique to the estimation of cortical connectivity pattern in normal subjects and in one spinal cord injured patient is also provided...
Brain activity during the memorization of visual scenes from TV commercials: an application of high resolution EEG and steady state somatosensory evoked potentials technologiesLaura Astolfi
IRCCS Fondazione Santa Lucia, Rome, Italy
J Physiol Paris 103:333-41. 2009..It is likely that such tool could play a role in the next future for the investigation of the neural substrates of the human behavior in decision-making and recognition tasks...
Brain connectivity structure in spinal cord injured: evaluation by graph analysisFabrizio de Vico Fallani
IRCCS, Fondazione Santa Lucia, Rome
Conf Proc IEEE Eng Med Biol Soc 1:988-91. 2006....
High-resolution EEG techniques for brain-computer interface applicationsFebo Cincotti
IRCCS Fondazione Santa Lucia, Rome, Italy
J Neurosci Methods 167:31-42. 2008..This study showed that it is practically feasible to utilize HREEG techniques for on-line operation of a BCI system; off-line analysis suggests that accuracy of BCI control is enhanced by the proposed method...
Removal of ocular artifacts for high resolution EEG studies: a simulation studyLaura Astolfi
IRCCS, Fondazione Santa Lucia, Rome, Italy
Conf Proc IEEE Eng Med Biol Soc 1:976-9. 2006..The error measures used were the relative error and the correlation coefficient between the clear, original EEG segment and those obtained after the application of the ICA procedure...
Changes in brain activity during the observation of TV commercials by using EEG, GSR and HR measurementsGiovanni Vecchiato
IRCCS Fondazione Santa Lucia, Rome, Italy
Brain Topogr 23:165-79. 2010..However, these conclusions seems reasonable and well inserted in the already existing literature on this topic related to the HERA model...
Alpha event-related desynchronization preceding a go/no-go task: a high-resolution EEG studyClaudio Babiloni
Dipartimento di Fisiologia Umana e Farmacologia, Universita degli Studi di Roma La Sapienza, Rome, Italy
Neuropsychology 18:719-28. 2004..This reflects an adaptive, energy-consuming strategy rather than an economic waiting for the go stimulus...
Assessing cortical functional connectivity by partial directed coherence: simulations and application to real dataLaura Astolfi
Dip Informatica e Sistemistica, Universita La Sapienza, Rome, Italy
IEEE Trans Biomed Eng 53:1802-12. 2006....
Cortical functional connectivity networks in normal and spinal cord injured patients: Evaluation by graph analysisFabrizio de Vico Fallani
Interdepartment Research Centre for Models and Information Analysis in Biomedical Systems, University La Sapienza, Rome, Italy
Hum Brain Mapp 28:1334-46. 2007..This fact suggests a sort of compensative mechanism as local response to the alteration in their MIF areas, which is probably due to the indirect effects of the spinal injury...
Motor cortical responsiveness to attempted movements in tetraplegia: evidence from neuroelectrical imagingDonatella Mattia
Neurofisiopatologia Clinica, Fondazione Santa Lucia, IRCCS, Via Ardeatina, 306, 00179 Rome, Italy
Clin Neurophysiol 120:181-9. 2009..Here we use an advance neuroelectrical imaging approach to examine the motor cortical responsiveness in human tetraplegia...
Evaluation of the brain network organization from EEG signals: a preliminary evidence in stroke patientFabrizio de Vico Fallani
Laboratory of Neurofisiopatologia Clinica, IRCCS Fondazione Santa Lucia, Via Ardeatina 306, Rome, Italy
Anat Rec (Hoboken) 292:2023-31. 2009..This weak organization is principally due to the significant (P < 0.01 Bonferroni corrected) increase in disconnected nodes together with the significant increase in the links in some other crucial vertices...
Structure of the cortical networks during successful memory encoding in TV commercialsFabrizio de Vico Fallani
IRCCS Fondazione Santa Lucia, Rome, Italy Interdepartmental Research Centre for Models and Information Analysis in Biomedical Systems, University Sapienza, Rome, Italy
Clin Neurophysiol 119:2231-7. 2008..This work intends to evaluate the functional characteristics of the cerebral network during the successful memory encoding of TV commercials...
Estimation of the effective and functional human cortical connectivity with structural equation modeling and directed transfer function applied to high-resolution EEGLaura Astolfi
Dipartimento di Informatica e Sistemistica, Universita La Sapienza, 00185, Rome, Italy
Magn Reson Imaging 22:1457-70. 2004..We conclude that the estimation of cortical connectivity can be performed not only with hemodynamic measurements, but also with EEG signals treated with advanced computational techniques...
Extracting information from cortical connectivity patterns estimated from high resolution EEG recordings: a theoretical graph approachFabrizio de Vico Fallani
Interdep Research Centre for Models and Information Analysis in Biomedical Systems, University La Sapienza, Rome, Italy
Brain Topogr 19:125-36. 2007..The proposed approach, based on the use of indexes derived from graph theory, can apply to cerebral connectivity patterns estimated not only from the EEG signals but also from different brain imaging methods...
Comparison of different cortical connectivity estimators for high-resolution EEG recordingsLaura Astolfi
Dipartimento Informatica e Sistemistica, Universita La Sapienza, Rome, Italy
Hum Brain Mapp 28:143-57. 2007....
Estimate of causality between independent cortical spatial patterns during movement volition in spinal cord injured patientsLaura Astolfi
IRCCS Fondazione Santa Lucia, Rome, Italy
Brain Topogr 19:107-23. 2007....
The study of brain activity during the observation of commercial advertising by using high resolution EEG techniquesGiovanni Vecchiato
University of Rome Sapienza, Rome, Italy
Conf Proc IEEE Eng Med Biol Soc 2009:57-60. 2009..In conclusions, high resolution EEG have been proved able to generate useful insights about the particular fruition of TV messages, related to both commercial as well as political fields...
Multiple pathways analysis of brain functional networks from EEG signals: an application to real dataFabrizio de Vico Fallani
Laboratory of Clinical Neurophysiopathology, IRCCS Fondazione Santa Lucia, Via Ardeatina, 306, I 00179, Rome, Italy
Brain Topogr 23:344-54. 2011..This evidence strengthens the hypothesis of the need for a higher functional interaction among the closest ROIs as a mechanism to compensate the lack of feedback from the peripheral nerves to the sensomotor areas...
Attentional processes and cognitive performance during expectancy of painful galvanic stimulations: a high-resolution EEG studyClaudio Babiloni
Department of Human Physiology and Pharmacology, La Sapienza University, Rome, Italy
Behav Brain Res 152:137-47. 2004..This happens even if the brain increases preparatory processes of the specific sensory channel to be targeted by the painful stimulus...
Spectral EEG frontal asymmetries correlate with the experienced pleasantness of TV commercial advertisementsGiovanni Vecchiato
Department of Physiology and Pharmacology, University of Rome Sapienza, Piazzale Aldo Moro 5, Rome, Italy
Med Biol Eng Comput 49:579-83. 2011..Moreover, our data presented an increase of PSD related to the observation of unpleasant commercials, which resulted higher with respect to the one elicited by pleasant advertisements...
Neuroelectrical hyperscanning measures simultaneous brain activity in humansLaura Astolfi
IRCCS Fondazione Santa Lucia, Rome, Italy
Brain Topogr 23:243-56. 2010..EEG hyperscannings could be used to investigate experimental paradigms where the knowledge of the simultaneous interactions between the subjects have a value...
Transient human cortical responses during the observation of simple finger movements: a high-resolution EEG studyClaudio Babiloni
Sezione di EEG ad Alta Risoluzione, Dipartimento di Fisiologia Umana e Farmacologia, Universita di Roma La Sapienza, Rome, Italy
Hum Brain Mapp 20:148-57. 2003....
Human alpha rhythms during visual delayed choice reaction time tasks: a magnetoencephalography studyClaudio Babiloni
Dipartimento di Fisiologia Umana e Farmacologia, Universita La Sapienza, Rome, Italy
Hum Brain Mapp 24:184-92. 2005..05) later in STM compared to control condition. In conclusion, whole-head MEG technology and very simple STM demands revealed significant changes of human neuromagnetic alpha rhythms in normal young adults...
The use of EEG modifications due to motor imagery for brain-computer interfacesFebo Cincotti
Laboratorio di Neurofisiopatologia, Fondazione Santa Lucia, 1 00174 Rome, Italy
IEEE Trans Neural Syst Rehabil Eng 11:131-3. 2003..The results (variable correct classification rate of mental imagery between 75% and 95%) suggest that it is possible to recognize quite reliably ongoing mental movement imagery for BCI applications...
A covert attention P300-based brain-computer interface: GeospellFabio Aloise
Neuroelectrical Imaging and BCI Lab, Fondazione Santa Lucia IRCCS, Rome, Italy
Ergonomics 55:538-51. 2012..Despite a decrease in effectiveness due to the use of covert attention, the performance of the GeoSpell far exceeded the threshold of accuracy with regard to effective spelling...
Functional frontoparietal connectivity during short-term memory as revealed by high-resolution EEG coherence analysisClaudio Babiloni
Dipartimento di Fisiologia Umana e Farmacologia, Universita degli Studi di Roma La Sapienza, Rome, Italy
Behav Neurosci 118:687-97. 2004..In conclusion, frontoparietal connectivity would optimize "representational" memory during STM. In this context, the frontal areas would increase their influence on parietal areas for memory retention...
Motor-related cortical dynamics to intact movements in tetraplegics as revealed by high-resolution EEGDonatella Mattia
Neurofisiopatologia Clinica, Fondazione Santa Lucia, IRCCS, Rome, Italy
Hum Brain Mapp 27:510-9. 2006....
Defecting or not defecting: how to "read" human behavior during cooperative games by EEG measurementsFabrizio de Vico Fallani
NEILab, Scientific Institute for Research Hospitalization and Health Care IRCCS Fondazione Santa Lucia, Rome, Italy
PLoS ONE 5:e14187. 2010..The decision to defect can be "read" in advance by evaluating the changes of connectivity pattern in the hyper-brain network...
Asynchronous P300-based brain-computer interface to control a virtual environment: initial tests on end usersFabio Aloise
Department Neuroelectrical Imaging and BCI Lab, Fondazione Santa Lucia IRCCS, Rome, Italy
Clin EEG Neurosci 42:219-24. 2011..The asynchronous modality may contribute to filling the usability gap between BCI systems and traditional input devices, representing an important step towards their use in the activities of daily living...
Patterns of cortical activity during the observation of Public Service Announcements and commercial advertisingsGiovanni Vecchiato
IRCCS Fondazione Santa Lucia, Rome, Italy
Nonlinear Biomed Phys 4:S3. 2010..Further research with an extended set of subjects will be necessary to further validate the observations reported in this paper...
BCI meeting 2005--workshop on technology: hardware and softwareFebo Cincotti
Fondazione Santa Lucia, 00179 Rome, Italy
IEEE Trans Neural Syst Rehabil Eng 14:128-31. 2006..The main conclusion was recognition of the need to focus technical requirements on the users' needs and the need for consistent standards in BCI research...
A graph-theoretical approach in brain functional networks. Possible implications in EEG studiesFabrizio De Vico Fallani
IRCCS Fondazione Santa Lucia, Rome, Italy
Nonlinear Biomed Phys 4:S8. 2010....
Control or no-control? Reducing the gap between Brain-Computer Interface and classical input devicesFrancesca Schettini
NEILab, Fondazione Santa Lucia, Rome, Italy
Conf Proc IEEE Eng Med Biol Soc 2012:1815-8. 2012..We also demonstrated how the proposed classifier can improve communication efficiency with respect to classical synchronous classifiers...
Quantitative EEG and dynamic susceptibility contrast MRI in Alzheimer's disease: a correlative studyDonatella Mattia
Fondazione Santa Lucia, I R C C S, Rome, Italy
Clin Neurophysiol 114:1210-6. 2003....
Human brain oscillatory activity phase-locked to painful electrical stimulations: a multi-channel EEG studyClaudio Babiloni
Dipartimento di Fisiologia Umana e Farmacologia, Universita di Roma La Sapienza, Rome, Italy
Hum Brain Mapp 15:112-23. 2002..This enriches the actual debate on the mapping of event-related oscillatory activity of human brain...
Relevant EEG features for the classification of spontaneous motor-related tasksJosédelR Millán
ISIS, Joint Research Centre of the EC, Ispra, Italy
Biol Cybern 86:89-95. 2002..Thus, the use of just those relevant features increases the efficiency of the brain interfaces and, most importantly, enables a greater level of adaptation of the personal BCI to the individual user...
Estimation of the cortical connectivity patterns during the intention of limb movementsLaura Astolfi
Department of Human Physiology and Pharmacology, University of Rome La Sapienza, Italy
IEEE Eng Med Biol Mag 25:32-8. 2006
Human cortical electroencephalography (EEG) rhythms during the observation of simple aimless movements: a high-resolution EEG studyClaudio Babiloni
Sezione di EEG ad Alta Risoluzione, Dipartimento di Fisiologia Umana e Farmacologia, , P.le A. Moro, 5 I-00185 Rome, Italy
Neuroimage 17:559-72. 2002..Finally, the pattern of hemispherical cortical rhythmicity did not support a "simple concentration" of movement observation functions in the left or right hemisphere...
Developing wearable bio-feedback systems: a general-purpose platformLuigi Bianchi
Neuroscience Department, Universita degli Studi di Roma Tor Vergata, 00133 Rome, Italy
IEEE Trans Neural Syst Rehabil Eng 11:117-9. 2003..Our design has been used to build two brain computer interface systems that were easily ported from the Win32 platform...
Human cortical rhythms during visual delayed choice reaction time tasks. A high-resolution EEG study on normal agingClaudio Babiloni
Dipartimento di Fisiologia Umana e Farmacologia, Universita La Sapienza, P le Aldo Moro 5, 00185 Rome, Italy
Behav Brain Res 153:261-71. 2004..These effects might worsen behavioral performances to the simple cognitive tasks with age. The present protocol is promising for the neuroimaging study of pathological aging...
Hypermethods for EEG hyperscanningFabio Babiloni
Dipt. di Fisiologia umana e Farmacologia, Univ. La Sapienza, Roma
Conf Proc IEEE Eng Med Biol Soc 1:3666-9. 2006..In such area the importance of EEG will be relevant due to its temporal and spatial resolution now obtainable w- ith the high resolution EEG techniques...
Anticipatory cortical responses during the expectancy of a predictable painful stimulation. A high-resolution electroencephalography studyClaudio Babiloni
Dipartimento di Fisiologia Umana e Farmacologia, Sezione di EEG ad Alta Risoluzione, Universita degli Studi di Roma La Sapienza, P le Aldo Moro 5, 00185 Rome, Italy
Eur J Neurosci 18:1692-700. 2003..The present results also suggest that negative event-related potentials are modest preceding warned stimuli (even if painful) with a simple information content...
Multimodal integration of EEG, MEG and fMRI data for the solution of the neuroimage puzzleFabio Babiloni
Department of Human Physiology and Pharmacology, University La Sapienza, 00185 Rome, Italy
Magn Reson Imaging 22:1471-6. 2004..Examples of the application of these methods to the estimation of the time varying cortical current density activity in selected region of interest (ROI) are presented for movement-related high-resolution EEG data...
Cortical network dynamics during foot movementsFabrizio de Vico Fallani
Interdep Research Centre for Models and Information Analysis in Biomedical Systems, University of Rome Sapienza, Corso V Emanuele, 244, 00186 Rome, Italy
Neuroinformatics 6:23-34. 2008....
Estimation of the cortical connectivity by high-resolution EEG and structural equation modeling: simulations and application to finger tapping dataLaura Astolfi
Department of Human Physiology and Pharmacology, University of Rome La Sapienza, 00185 Rome, Italy
IEEE Trans Biomed Eng 52:757-68. 2005..The feasibility of the proposed approach has been shown in a human study using high-resolution EEG recordings related to finger tapping movements...
Sub-second "temporal attention" modulates alpha rhythms. A high-resolution EEG studyClaudio Babiloni
Dipartimento di Fisiologia Umana e Farmacologia, Universita La Sapienza, Rome, Italy 1 it
Brain Res Cogn Brain Res 19:259-68. 2004..In conclusion, temporal attention for a sub-second delay (800 ms) did modulate low-band alpha rhythm over large regions of both cortical hemispheres...
Human cortical EEG rhythms during long-term episodic memory task. A high-resolution EEG study of the HERA modelClaudio Babiloni
, Italy
Neuroimage 21:1576-84. 2004..The strict relation between gamma response and perception suggests that retrieval processes of long-term memory deeply impinged upon sensory representation of the stored material...
Multimodal integration of EEG and MEG data: a simulation study with variable signal-to-noise ratio and number of sensorsFabio Babiloni
Dipartimento di Fisiologia Umana e Farmacologia, Universita di Roma La Sapienza, Roma, Italy
Hum Brain Mapp 22:52-62. 2004....
Human cortical responses during one-bit short-term memory. A high-resolution EEG study on delayed choice reaction time tasksClaudio Babiloni
Dipartimento di Fisiologia Umana e Farmacologia, Sezione di EEG ad Alta Risoluzione, Universita La Sapienza, P le Aldo Moro 5, 00185 Rome, Italy
Clin Neurophysiol 115:161-70. 2004..We investigated whether a very simple short-term memory (STM) demand induces a visible change of EEG rhythms over the two hemispheres...
Neural basis for the brain responses to the marketing messages: an high resolution EEG studyFabio Babiloni
Dipt. di Fisiologia umana e Farmacologia, La Sapienza Univ, Rome
Conf Proc IEEE Eng Med Biol Soc 1:3676-9. 2006..Results suggest a time-varying engagement of the orbitofrontal circuits that is thought to be involved in the reward value of the stimuli...
