Computational Intelligence and Neuroscience
Volume 2007 (2007), Article ID 41468, 9 pages
doi:10.1155/2007/41468
Research Article

Extracting Rhythmic Brain Activity for Brain-Computer Interfacing through Constrained Independent Component Analysis

Signal Processing and Control Group, ISVR, University of Southampton, Southampton SO17 1BJ, UK

Received 31 December 2006; Accepted 18 June 2007

Academic Editor: Andrzej Cichocki

Copyright © 2007 Suogang Wang and Christopher J. James. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

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