Technology

The impact of mind-body awareness training on the early learning of a brain-computer interface.

Technology September 2014 Kaitlin Cassady, Albert You, Alex Doud et al.

Brain-computer interface (BCI) systems allow users to interact with their environment by bypassing muscular control to tap directly into the users' thoughts. In the present study, we investigate the role of prior experience with yoga and meditation, examples of formalized mind-body awareness training (MBAT), in learning to use a one-dimensional sensorimotor rhythm based BCI. Thirty-six human...