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Computational Intelligence and Neuroscience
Volume 2017, Article ID 5863512, 16 pages
https://doi.org/10.1155/2017/5863512
Research Article

Development of a Novel Motor Imagery Control Technique and Application in a Gaming Environment

Ting Li,1 Jinhua Zhang,2 Tao Xue,1 and Baozeng Wang2

1School of Computer Science, Xi’an Polytechnic University, Xi’an, China
2State Key Laboratory for Manufacturing Systems Engineering, School of Mechanical Engineering, Xi’an Jiaotong University, Xi’an, China

Correspondence should be addressed to Ting Li; moc.anis@euxoahnaitgnac

Received 18 October 2016; Revised 5 December 2016; Accepted 30 January 2017; Published 9 May 2017

Academic Editor: Jing Jin

Copyright © 2017 Ting Li et al. 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.

Abstract

We present a methodology for a hybrid brain-computer interface (BCI) system, with the recognition of motor imagery (MI) based on EEG and blink EOG signals. We tested the BCI system in a 3D Tetris and an analogous 2D game playing environment. To enhance player’s BCI control ability, the study focused on feature extraction from EEG and control strategy supporting Game-BCI system operation. We compared the numerical differences between spatial features extracted with common spatial pattern (CSP) and the proposed multifeature extraction. To demonstrate the effectiveness of 3D game environment at enhancing player’s event-related desynchronization (ERD) and event-related synchronization (ERS) production ability, we set the 2D Screen Game as the comparison experiment. According to a series of statistical results, the group performing MI in the 3D Tetris environment showed more significant improvements in generating MI-associated ERD/ERS. Analysis results of game-score indicated that the players’ scores presented an obvious uptrend in 3D Tetris environment but did not show an obvious downward trend in 2D Screen Game. It suggested that the immersive and rich-control environment for MI would improve the associated mental imagery and enhance MI-based BCI skills.