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Brain Computer Interface Control of a Robotic Device
NCT02069938 · University of Minnesota · Updated 18 Jan 2018
- What is being tested
- Not stated
- For
- Healthy
- Kind of study
- Watches patients without assigning a treatment. No drug phase (a device or procedure study).
- Who can join
- Ages 18 years to 64 years. About 23 people. The full rules are on the registry page.
- Where
- United States
- When
- Starts or started March 2014, ends 13 March 2016. Registered 24 Feb 2014.
- Results
- None posted yet.
In the researchers' words
Noninvasive Brain-Computer Interfaces (BCIs) have been used to control a number of virtual and physical objects through the voluntary modulation of brain rhythms. Current issues with noninvasive BCIs include exhausting motor imagery tasks and long training times required to achieve competent control. The investigators will address these issues within this protocol, examining new approaches to reduce the effort required by subjects to control a physical object in the task. The PI's hypothesis is: Control of a physical robotic device will increase the performance of subjects in BCI tasks that are analogous to virtual tasks due to greater engagement with a physical output.
Sites
- Nils Hasselmo Hall at the University of Minnesota - Twin Cities CampusMinneapolis, Minnesota, United States