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BCIs Based on Signals from Between the Brain and Skull 229<br />

the time domain and the frequency domain (see Fig. 4). However, special attention<br />

must be paid to the technical challenges <strong>of</strong> working in an electrically noisy hospital<br />

environment within the limited time subjects have available during the constant<br />

demands <strong>of</strong> treatment in a working medical facility. An ECoG-based BCI project<br />

should pay special attention to these concerns from the earliest planning stages.<br />

Equipment selection and interfaces with clinical equipment should be designed for<br />

ease <strong>of</strong> setup, minimal disruption <strong>of</strong> clinical routine, and robustness to and identification<br />

<strong>of</strong> electrical contamination on either the ECoG or reference electrode signals.<br />

Feedback paradigms and experimental instructions should be quick to explain and<br />

easy to understand. Experiments should be designed to be compatible with the limited<br />

time available, the unpredictable nature <strong>of</strong> subject recruitment, and the limited<br />

control over basic experimental parameters such as electrode location. While the<br />

technical challenges <strong>of</strong> ECoG recording can usually be conquered by engineering<br />

solutions, the challenges <strong>of</strong> scheduling, access, and interruptions will be better<br />

addressed through the active involvement <strong>of</strong> the medical personnel on the research<br />

team. Ideally, these research team members should be excited about the research<br />

and have a specific set <strong>of</strong> research questions <strong>of</strong> particular interest to them. Since the<br />

medical team members may be the logical ones to recruit subjects into the experiment,<br />

and act as a liaison between the BCI research team and the clinical personnel,<br />

they can have a make-or-break effect on the total project success. Working as a team,<br />

a multidisciplinary research group can successfully utilize the opportunity provided<br />

by clinical implantation <strong>of</strong> ECoG electrodes for a variety <strong>of</strong> medically necessary<br />

treatment regimes to conduct strong BCI research.<br />

Fig. 4 Event-related potentials and ERD/ERS maps <strong>of</strong> movement-related ECoG for a subject<br />

performing right middle finger extension. (a) Electrode locations. (b) Averaged ECoG for the black<br />

electrodes in (a). (c) ERD/ERS for the black electrodes

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