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- From: Paul M. Mullins <FC137501@YSUB.YSU.EDU>
- Subject: Re: Neural Interfacing and VR
- Date: Sunday, 28 Oct 1990 12:27:53 EDT
- Organization: Youngstown State University VM system (YSUB)
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- Specific references follow...
-
- > From: keithley@applelink.apple.com (Craig Keithley)
- > Neural Interfacing (and its application to VR) might be here sooner than
- > you think.
- >
- > Some 15 years ago a UCLA research project successfully used VERY low end
- > minicomputers to detect specific thoughts. The basic idea was/is that it
- > possible to pattern match a properly filtered set of brain waves to a
- > previously captured sample. When youUve got a good match, you can respond
- > to the command in a manner similar to voice recognition.
- >
- > I recommend that you go to your local university library, and borrow the
- > thesis entitled:
- > Computer System Architecture for a Brain Computer Interface
- > Ronald Olch
- > 1975(?)
- >
- > Mr. Olch is no longer involved with this research... But he did tell me
- > that the Principal Researcher was a Jaques (sp?) Vidal. While Jaques
- > hasnUt published under his name, he has been a co-authored a variety of
- > papers which have a lot to do with where VR/Neural Interfacing is going.
- >
- > Craig Keithley, Apple Computer
-
- I did check up on some of this work for a related purpose - measurement of
- stress to guage user satisfaction with features of the computer interface
- (submited for publication). The specific references for (some of) J.J. Vidal's
- work are (from my notes, originally Comp & Info Syst Abstr):
-
- "Toward direct brain-computer communication," J.J. Vidal. Annual Review
- of Biophysics and Bioengineering, Vol 4, p. 157.
-
- "Biocybernetic control in man-machine interaction" (AD-777 720/4GA),
- J.J. Vidal. NTIS, Sprinfield, VA, April 1974, 101 pages.
-
- Same, (N77-15662), J.J. Vidal, M.D. Puck, R.J. Hickman, R.H. Olch.
- NTIS, Springfield, VA. March 1976, 99 pages.
-
- Same, (N77-15663), by Same. NTIS, Springfield, VA. September 1975, 82 pp.
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- "Real-time detection of brain events in EEG," J.J. Vidal. IEEE Proceedings,
- Vol. 65 (5), May 1977, pp. 633-641.
-
- "Generation of ECG prototype waveforms by piecewise correlation averaging,"
- Hecht and Vidal. IEEE Trans on Pattern Analysis & Machine Intelligence,
- Vol PAMI-2 (5), September 1980, pp 415-420.
-
- I must admit that I didn't track down all these references since it soon
- became obvious that there is a lot of this sort of research. Most of it
- is found in Psychology libraries under the title "evoked potentials." It
- is used for various purposes ranging from measurement of stress and mental
- workload (MACINTER has some related articles) to measurement of visual
- accuity in children. It is also used to monitor patients during surgery from
- remote sights (Sclabassi, PhD, MD at U Pitt was doing some of this type
- of work.
-
- Paul Mullins FC137501@YSUB.YSU.EDU
-