Rodriguez-Ugarte M, Ianez E, Ortiz M, Azorin JM. Novel tDCS montage favors lower limb motor imagery detection.
ANNUAL INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE OF THE IEEE ENGINEERING IN MEDICINE AND BIOLOGY SOCIETY. IEEE ENGINEERING IN MEDICINE AND BIOLOGY SOCIETY. ANNUAL INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE 2018;
2018:2170-2173. [PMID:
30440834 DOI:
10.1109/embc.2018.8512656]
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Abstract
This work studies a novel transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) montage to improve a brain-machine interface (BMI) lower limb motor imagery detection. The tDCS montage is composed by two anodes and one cathode. One anode is located over the motor cortex and the other one over the cerebellum. Ten healthy subjects participated in this experiment. They were randomly separated into two groups: sham, which received a fake stimulation, and active tDCS, which received a real stimulation. Each subject was experimented on five consecutive days. Results pointed out that there was a significant difference $(p < 0 .05)$ in the classification accuracy between the sham and the active tDCS group. On each of the five days of the experiment the active tDCS group achieved better accuracy results than the sham group: 4%, 10%, 10%, 9% and 7% higher respectively.
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