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Towards a Spatial Ability Training to Improve Mental Imagery based Brain-Computer Interface (MI-BCI) Performance: a Pilot Study

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—Although Mental Imagery based Brain-Computer Interfaces (MI-BCIs) seem to be very promising for many applications, they are still rarely used outside laboratories. This is partly due to suboptimal training protocols, which provide little help to users learning how to control the system. Indeed, they do not take into account recommendations from instructional design. However, it has been shown that MI-BCI performances are significantly correlated to certain aspects of the users' cognitive profile, such as their Spatial Abilities (SA). Thus, it remains to be elucidated whether training the SA of BCI users would also improve their BCI control performance. Therefore, we proposed and validated an SA training that aimed at being included in an MI-BCI training protocol. Our pre-studies indeed confirmed that such a training does increase people's SA abilities. We then conducted a pilot study with 3 participants, one with a standard MI-BCI training protocol, one with the proposed SA training integrated into a standard MI-BCI training, and another control integrating another training, here verbal comprehension tasks, into a standard MI-BCI training. While such a small population cannot lead to any strong result, our first results show that SA training can indeed be integrated into MI-BCI training and is thus worth being further investigated for BCI user training.
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hal-01341042 , version 1 (09-07-2016)

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Suzy Teillet, Fabien Lotte, Bernard N'Kaoua, Camille Jeunet. Towards a Spatial Ability Training to Improve Mental Imagery based Brain-Computer Interface (MI-BCI) Performance: a Pilot Study. IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics (SMC 2016) , Oct 2016, Budapest, Hungary. pp.6. ⟨hal-01341042⟩
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