The Viability and Performance of P300 Responses using Low Fidelity Equipment
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Abstract
In this paper we investigate the viability, practicability and efficacy of eliciting P300 responses based on the P300 speller BCI paradigm (oddball) and the xDAWN algorithm using five healthy subjects; while using a non-invasive Brain Computer Interface (BCI) based on low fidelity electroencephalographic (EEG) equipment. In the past decade there was a proliferation of cheap EEG equipment, including user-made equipment, which exposed an evident necessity to validate the equipment's suitability. Moreover a number of researchers and end users are currently using off-the-shelf equipment as a "black box" approach without any qualitative testing. Part of our contribution will be to create awareness of what type of hardware components are being utilized in our low fidelity equipment, vis--vis the results achieved. Our main contribution is to assess the functionality and reliability of our low cost equipment in its ability to detect the P300 component in a consistent, reliable and effective manner as a basis for future studies. This work forms part of a wider project where we plan to introduce a number of distractions and assessing the ways and extents to which different degrees of distractions affect the detection success achievable of the P300 component while using our low cost equipment. Our results demonstrate the applicability of using this off-the-shelf equipment as a means to successfully and effectively detect P300 responses.
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Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
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| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
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