
We will have the official opening ceremony and a full day of demonstrations of Mobile Brain/Body Imaging experiments at the Berlin Mobile Brain/Body Imaging Lab. Join us to see how Mobile Brain/Body Imaging experiments are planned and what we investigate. Discuss with the team and meet national and international scholars. Or simply enjoy some time in the lab to hang out and have some finger food and drinks.
The president of the Technical University Berlin, Prof. Dr. Christian Thomsen, will officially open the Berlin Mobile Brain/Body Imaging Labs at 2 PM preceded and followed by demonstrations and scientific discussion of MoBI experiments.
You can sign up for the different demonstrations in the respective slots here and you will find additional information regarding the demonstrations below.
01 Demo – The Invisible Maze Task to Investigate Brain Dynamics of Spatial Learning (Lukas Gehrke; Lab 1)
Spatial learning usually requires integration of egcoentrically perceives sensory input with higher cognitive processes to build up spatial representations of the environment. These might include survey representations that are independent from the current position and orientation of the navigator. Different sensory inputs are used to support this kind of translation from egocentric to allocentric spatial representation. With this task we break down and control the visual input associated with exploratory thrust movements of the hand to build up a spatial representation.
In this demonstration you will experience the Invisible Maze Task (IMT) that allows you to explore an unseen virtual environment through touching movements (like in the dark to find a light switch). You will have to answer different spatial questions after exploring the environment using virtual response formats. There is time to discuss the advantages of MoBI over standard setups and how this contributes to a better understanding of spatial cognition.
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02 Demo – Visual perception and motor performance (Dr. Janna Protzak; Lab 1)
Visual information processing in real-life situations usually takes place during active behavior. Motor behavior itself – even basic forms as standing and walking – requires cognitive resources and therefore might impact other brain dynamics going on in parallel. To investigate the interplay of visual information processing and motor performance, we built a study setup including visual stimulus presentations in different motor task conditions (sitting, standing, walking).
In this demonstration, you will experience dynamic visual target presentations using LED-arrays and camera-based motion tracking information based on your relative position. The setup will be presented and a simple stimulus-response task example during walking can be tested. You will gain insights into our work with older participants in MoBI-setups and on our previous results. Discussions, questions and comments are welcome.
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03 Demo – Heading Computation in Actively Rotating Humans (Dr. Friederike Hohlefeld; Lab 1)
Studying brain activity in freely moving subjects is heavily confounded by motion-related artifacts in brain recordings. However, orienting yourself in the environment requires active body movements – therefore, our understanding of brain mechanisms underlying natural spatial orientation was traditionally limited. We overcome this obstacle by Mobile Brain-Body Imaging, and we focus on studying spatial representations of heading changes by means of EEG and motion capture in virtual reality.
In this demonstration, you will be guided through the experimental setup and theoretical underpinnings of the project. You will learn about how the human brain implements whole body movements and how these are used for spatial orientation. You will gain insights on limitations of previous “standard” experiments, and why the MoBI approach allows us to understand fundamental aspects of human cognition outside the classic lab in more natural environments.
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04 Demo – Dual-Task Walking and Cognitive-Motor Interference in VR (Federica Nenna; Lab1)
Walking requires resources that are not available for a second task. This becomes obvious, for example, when pedestrians in front of you slow down while typing messages on their cell-phones. Here we address this kind of cognitive-motor interference in a virtual reality setup in which participants have to walk (as compared to standing) and respond to a secondary visual discrimination task to understand the brain dynamics underlying dual task control and ressource allocation.
In the demonstration, you will see the setup and experience the walking and standing task for a short time. You will walk along a virtual route and respond to different visual stimuli with the controller in your left and right hand. You will be able to understand the general setup including all data stremas used in this protocol as well as technical implementations that allow to present visual stimuli in VR dependent on the current head orientation of the participants. There will be time for discussion of the different setups and results of the experimental series.
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05 Demo – Investigating spatial affordances in architecture using VR and EEG (Zakaria Djebbara, Lab 1)
Architects are aware of the possibilities for bodily movement their spaces offer. They have long known the impact on perception and affective evaluation of architecture. Sequences through space have in particular been of interest in this study. Transitions themselves can be defined in time by the juncture between two spaces, and spatially as a delineating threshold between them, generally revealing a possibility for passing the threshold. Here, we investigated transitions using openings as delineating threshold, to gain a deeper understanding of the perceived affordance of crossing the openings and how this impacts evaluation of the space.
In this demonstration, you will see the experimental setup utilized to measure motor-related cortical potentials (MRCPs). You will have to wait for a go/no-go cue and either pass through an opening between two adjacent rooms, or simply wait. You will experience physical passing through different openings and how this relates to affordances and active inference as well as emotional outcome.
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06 Demo – Mobile Brain/Body Imaging for Situation Awareness (Marius Klug; Lab 2)
Situation Awareness (SA) is one of the key factors in ergonomics and defined as “The perception of the elements in the environment within a volume of time and space, the comprehension of their meaning and the projection of their status in the near future” (Endsley, 1988). SA, however, has rarely been examined using brain imaging techniques due to its complex mobile nature. Understanding brain correlates of SA and mental workload is thus a primary goal of the present experiment.
In this demo you will see a new mobile brain/body imaging setup, including electroencephalography, motion capture, eye tracking and a virtual reality head-mounted-display (HTC Vive). You can observe the eye-tracking in real-time in the virtual environment. You will play a short interactive game in which you have to distinguish target and distractor stimuli from each other while they fly towards you. React fast to touch the targets and avoid the distractors in four increasingly difficult levels.
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07 Demo – Immersion in VR and its impact on prediction errors (Lukas Gehrke; Lab 2)
Immersion in virtual reality is an important prerequisite for investigating human cognition and affective states in VR experiments. However, to measure immersion, questionnaires or other obtrusive methods are used. Utilizing ongoing EEG activity to measure how immersed participants are in a given VR environment would allow to track the level of immersion without interrupting the VR experience. Ultimately, EEG parameters might be used to probe the user regarding his or her level of immersion in the VR.
In this demonstration, you will experience a simple object selection task in VR in two different conditions: in the first condition, you will perceive visual feedback only while in a second condition, you will perceive visual and tactile feedback whenever you “touch” a virtual cube. You will experience whether additional sensory stimulation makes you feel more immersed in the scenario. There is time for discussion of the results from this and previous experiments.
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08 Demo – Incidental spatial learning through modified navigation instructions (Anna Wunderlich; Lab 3)
Navigation assistance systems support human navigating especially in multi-tasking situations like car driving. With the increasing use of assistance systems, however, less information about the spatial surrounding is processed and a decrease in orienting abilities can be observed. Here, we present a new approach to prevent the loss of orienting abilities by supporting spatial knowledge acquisition during the use of navigation assistance system by including landmark information in the instructions.
In this demonstration, you will see the experimental setup of one of the recent experiments from the Navigation Project at the BeMoBIL. Like the participants, you will watch the video of a route through Berlin following modified as compared to standard navigation instructions. You will experience the tasks participants were tested on after navigation, addressing different levels of spatial knowledge acquisition. There will be time for discussion of the different setups and results of the experimental series.
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09 Demo – Neuroadaptive Technology to Balance Workload (Team Phypa; Lab 3)
Passive brain-computer interfacing allows computers access to aspects of their user’s cognition. As such, a computer system can gain information about its user without this user needing to explicitly communicate it: it is simply interpreted from ongoing brain activity. The computer can then adapt to its user’s state.
This demo involves a measure of workload. The participant is either cognitively engaged, for example solving an arithmetic task, or they are not. After a calibration session of a few minutes, the computer will attempt to detect this state in real time. When no engagement is detected, the computer will present visually attractive “sparkles” on the screen to occupy the participant, lest they get bored. However, when the participant is engaged, the computer must accurately detect this and remove the sparkles, so as not to distract the participant. This neuroadaptive technology thus attempts to maintain a proper level in engagement in the participant.
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10 Technical setup of the Berlin Mobile Brain/Body Imaging Lab (Dr. Ole Traupe, Control room)
General overview of the technical setup of our lab.
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Please find a graphical overview of the different demonstrations, labs and time slots in the below document.
You can then sign up for the demonstrations you are interested in at here.
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Welcome to the informal closure of the open house @ the Berlin Mobile Brain/Body Imaging Lab.
Enjoy a relaxed coming together at the BeMoBIL, meet up with colleagues and friends and enjoy the semi-finals of the soccer world championship with a bottle of beer (Berlin style).
P.S.: I will have to update my illusion of a semi-final between Iceland and Germany…

Welcome and Introduction by Klaus Gramann TU Berlin

Session Chair: Guy Cheron
This session will provide overviews on newest developments in MoBI Hardware and MoBI Software including mobile unobtrusive EEG, sensor developments and multi-modal data synchronization and analyses approaches.



Coffee and tea will be available in front of the poster room on the first floor
During the poster session on Friday, July 13th, coffee and tea will be available in front of the poster room.
Session Chair: Guy Cheron
This session will provide overviews on newest developments in MoBI Hardware and MoBI Software including mobile unobtrusive EEG, sensor developments and multi-modal data synchronization and analyses approaches.



Meet our industrial partners for live demonstrations of their systems and discuss potential solutions for your research.
Demos will be presented at the respective booths in the exhibition area in front of the Immendorf room.
Session Chair: John Iversen
This session will provides insight into latest developments in the cognitive neuroscience of embodiment, spatial cognition, visual attention, natural face recognition as well as the brain dynamics underlying motor function.






Session Chair: John Iversen
This session will provides insight into latest developments in the cognitive neuroscience of embodiment, spatial cognition, visual attention, natural face recognition as well as the brain dynamics underlying motor function.






Coffee and tea will be available in front of the poster room on the first floor
During the poster session on Friday, July 13th, coffee and tea will be available in front of the poster room.
Session Chair: Jose L. Contreras-Vidal
The session ‘Gait- and Gait Rehabilitation’ focuses on the brain dynamics underlying natural and pathological gait. How can MoBI be used to overcome gait impairments in rehabilitation settings and what does it tell us about the basic supraspinal control of this core motor function.






Session Chair: Jose L. Contreras-Vidal
The session ‘Gait- and Gait Rehabilitation’ focuses on the brain dynamics underlying natural and pathological gait. How can MoBI be used to overcome gait impairments in rehabilitation settings and what does it tell us about the basic supraspinal control of this core motor function.







Diane Damiano

Session Chair: Scott Makeig
The session covers advances in MoBI in neuroarchitecture, the arts, dance and neuroscience research in the museum landscape.



Coffee and tea will be available in front of the poster room on the first floor
During the poster session on Friday, July 13th, coffee and tea will be available in front of the poster room.
Session Chair: Scott Makeig
The session covers advances in MoBI in neuroarchitecture, the arts, dance and neuroscience research in the museum landscape.



Three researchers will be awarded and one of the winners will present a short talk of 10 minutes, outlining the main idea their award-winning paper.
Session Chair: Dan Ferris
The 5th session provides an overview on the latest progress in Mobile Brain/Body Imaging approaches in sports and movement sciences.





Coffee and tea will be available in front of the poster room on the first floor
During the poster session on Friday, July 13th, coffee and tea will be available in front of the poster room.

Arthur Kramer


Poster Presentations with Discussion / Interaction (posters remain installed throughout the conference).
- Krigolson, Olave Edouard, Abimbola, Wande, Williams, Chad, Wright, Bruce, Binsted, Gordon.
Using Mobile EEG to Quanitfy Physician Fatigue.
- Akman, Sezen, Gehrke, Lukas, Lopes, Pedro, Gramann, Klaus.
Prediction error as a measure of immersion in virtual worlds: comparing different sensory feedback channels.
- Andreessen, Lena M, Zander, Thorsten O. A
Dry eeg system for neuroadaptive applications in realistic automotive scenarios.
- Nenna, Federica, Do, Cao Tri, Gehrke, Lukas, Gramann, Klaus.
Alterations of brain dynamics during natural dual-task walking.
- Zink, Rob, Van Huffel, Sabine, De Vos, Maarten.
An afternoon of natural activities at home through the eyes of mobile EEG.
- Nann, Marius, Deecke, Lüder, Soekadar, Surjo R.
Assessing the Bereitschaftspotential before 192-meter extreme bungee jumping.
- Gutzeit, Lisa, Tabie, Marc, Kirchner, Elsa Andrea.
Automatic Movement Segmentation of Exoskeleton Data.
- Soto, Vicente, Roberts, Hannah, Tyson-Carr, John, Kokmotou, Katerina, Cook, Stephanie, Fallon, Nicholas, Giesbrecht, Timo, Stancak, Andrej.
Brain responses to emotional faces in natural settings: a wireless mobile EEG recording study.
- Bradford, J. Cortney, Alam, Mohammad, Solon, Amelia, Lukos, Jamie R.
Classification of cognitive-motor interactions during walking via neural signals.
- De Pauw, Kevin, Cherelle, Pierre, Tassignon, Bruno, Van Cutsem, Jeroen, Roelands, Bart, Marulanda, Felipe Gomez, Lefeber, Dirk, Vanderborght, Bram, Meeusen, Romain.
Cognitive performance and brain dynamics during walking with Ankle Mimicking Prosthetic Foot 4.0 prototype.
- Malcolm, Brenda R., Foxe, John J., Butler, John S., Molholm, Sophie, De Sanctis, Pierfilippo.
Cognitive task engagement reduces the effects of sensory load on gait adaptation and electrocortical dynamics.
- Solis-Escalante, Teodoro, van der Cruijsen, Joris, de Kam, Digna, van Kordelaar, Joost, Schouten, Alfred C., Weerdesteyn, Vivian.
Cortical dynamics of compensatory balance control.
- Bulea, Thomas C., George, Kevin, Kim, Yushin, Damiano, Diane L.
Cortical Network Activity during Walking is Altered in Children with Unilateral Cerebral Palsy as Revealed by EEG.
- Outram, Michelle.
Dancing Attentional States: a mobile EEG case study of a dancer.
- Haar Horowitz, Adam, Grover, Ishaan, Reynolds-Cuellar, Pedro, Maes, Pattie, Breazeal, Cynthia.
Dormio: Interfacing with Dreams.
- Czeszumski, Artur, Ehinger, Benedikt V., Wahn, Basil, König, Peter.
Dynamics of feedback processing in cooperative and competitive situations.
- Dodwell, Gordon, Müller, Hermann, Töllner, Thomas.
EEG evidence for improved visual working memory performance during standing and exercise.
- Büchel, Daniel, Lehmann, Tim, Cockcroft, John, Louw, Quinnette, Baumeister, Jochen.
Effect of a cognitive dual-task on electrocortical activation during single leg stance.
- Peterson, Steven Michael, Ferris, Daniel Perry.
Electrocortical balance response to physical pull and visual rotation perturbations.
- Vecchiato, Giovanni, Del Vecchio, Maria, Ascari, Luca, Antopolskiy, Sergey, Deon, Fabio, Kubin, Luca, Ambeck-Madsen, Jonas, Rizzolatti, Giacomo, Avanzini, Pietro.
Electroencephalographic correlates of braking and acceleration events during simulated car driving.
- Stoltmann, Katarzyna, Fuchs, Susanne.
Empirical evidence on the choice of spatial reference frame depending on language and complexity of perceived relation.
- Wagner, Johanna, Martinez Cancino, Ramon, Makeig, Scott.
Error-related brain dynamics predict step adaptation in a challenging gait task.
- Hamacher, Dennis, Herold, Fabian, Aye, Norman, Schega, Lutz.
Evaluating the assessment of cortical hemodynamics in dual-task walking.
- Symeonidou, Evangelia-Regkina, Ferris, Daniel P.
Event-related potentials from an auditory oddball task while playing an augmented reality video game.
- Lehmann, Tim, Büchel, Daniel, Cockcroft, John, Louw, Quinnette, Baumeister, Jochen.
Exploring Functional Brain Connectivity of Postural Control in Upright Stance.
- Scherer, Reinhold, Seeber, Martin, Enzinger, Christian, Ropele, Stefan, Linderl-Madrutter, Regina, Grieshofer, Peter.
Gait-phase related EEG modulations during gait rehabilitation after stroke – First results.
- Butler, John S, Fearon, Conor, Waechter, Saskia, Killane, Isabelle, Kelly, Simon, Lynch, Timothy, Reilly, Richard.
Getting Ready To Freeze: Neurophysiological Correlates of Decision Making, Response Inhibition and Motor Preparation While Stepping in Parkinson’s Disease Patients With and Without Freezing of Gait.
- Reiser, Julian Elias, Arnau, Stefan, Pacharra, Marlene, Wascher, Edmund.
Hands on gait correction: identifying and correcting gait-artifacts in mobile low-density EEG.
- Riazy, Shirin, Pilz, Jürgen, Wendler, Tilo.
Higher-Order Viterbi Algorithm for Automatic Two-Channel Sleep-Staging.
- Gramann, Klaus, Hohlefeld, Friederike U., Gehrke, Lukas, Klug, Marius.
Human retrosplenial activity during physical and virtual heading changes revealed by mobile brain-body imaging (MoBI).
- Djebbara, Zakaria, Fich, Lars Brorson, Petrini, Laura, Gramann, Klaus.
Incentive architecture: Investigating spatial affordances in architecture using MoBI and VR.
- Gehrke, Lukas, Gramann, Klaus.
Interactive Exploration of Sparse Virtual Environments: Mobile Brain/Body Imaging of directional change vs. no-change situations.
- Dikker, Suzanne.
Learning and connecting in the real world: conducting neuroscience research in high school classrooms and museums.
- Moffat, Graeme, Proulx, Nicole, Banville, Hubert, Bhaskar, Jonathan.
Low cost, high throughput sparse mobile EEG & ERP brain research with Muse.
- Arnau, Stefan, Reiser, Julian Elias, Wascher, Edmund.
Maximizing task-variance in spectral parameters of the ongoing EEG by pink noise removal.
- Zapata, Dariusz, Augustynowicz, Pawe, Zabielska-Mendyk, Emilia.
Measuring kinesthetic motor imagery using haptic interface and EEG registration. A novel paradigm.
- Richardson, David Paul, Foxe, John, Freedman, Ed, Balasubramani, Pragathi.
Mobile Brain/Body Imaging (MoBI) Assessments of Cognitive-Motor Interference in Alzheimer’s Disease.
- Sionti, Marietta, Schack, Thomas.
Native speakers vs. linguists understanding of motion verbs.
- Wunderlich, Anna, Gramann, Klaus.
Navigation instructions including landmark information increase incidental spatial learning.
- Klug, Marius, Wehrend, Sven, Gramann, Klaus.
Neural Markers of Situation Awareness in Mobile Virtual Reality.
- Rito Lima, Ines, Haar, Shlomi, Orlov, Pavel, Faisal, Aldo.
Neural Motor Behavior in Extreme Driving.
- Barnstaple, Rebecca, DeSouza, Joseph FX.
Neurorehabilitation associated with dance therapy for chronic pain and depression.
- Marson, Fabio, Paoletti, Patrizio, Lasaponara, Stefano, Ben-Soussan, Tal Dotan.
Oscillatory EEG modulation during arm movements across sagittal body midline.
- Bradford, J. Cortney, Slipher, Geoffrey A, Mrozek, Randy, Hairston, W. David.
Performance of conformable, dry EEG sensors.
- Akman, Sezen, Gehrke, Lukas, Lopes, Pedro, Gramann, Klaus.
Prediction error as a measure of immersion in virtual worlds: comparing different sensory feedback channels.
- Duprès, Alban, Roy, Raphaëlle, Scannella, Sébastien, Dehais, Frédéric.
Pre-stimulus EEG engagement ratio predicts inattentional deafness to auditory alarms in realistic flight simulator.
- Haar, Shlomi, van Assel, Camille M., Faisal, A. Aldo.
Principles of motor learning in complex human skills.
- Wenzel, Richard, Gehrke, Lukas, Gramann, Klaus.
Prototypical Design of a Solution to Combine Head-Mounted Virtual Reality and Electroencephalography.
- Martin, Lily, Mombaur, Katja, Schubert, Alexander, Koch, Sabine C., Tschacher, Wolfgang, Fuchs, Thomas.
Schizophrenia and the Moving Body: Motor Markers of Disembodiment.
- Andrikopoulos, Panagiotis, Mavros, Panos, Fouseki, Kalliopi.
Studying the effect of light on the experience of space in situ: towards a novel and interdisciplinary methodological framework.
- Roberts, Hannah Louise, Soto, Vicente, Tyson-Carr, John, Kokmotou, Katerina, Byrne, Adam, Fallon, Nicholas, Giesbrecht, Timo, Stancak, Andrej.
The Application of Mobile EEG to the study of Product Preference Decisions, a Preliminary Investigation.
- Klug, Marius, Gehrke, Lukas, Hohlefeld, Friederike, Gramann, Klaus.
The BeMoBIL Pipeline – Facilitating MoBI Data Analysis in MATLAB.
- Krol, Laurens Ruben, Klaproth, Oliver, Vernaleken, Christoph, Wetzel, Inge, Gaertner, Jens, Russwinkel, Nele, Zander, Thorsten Oliver.
Towards a Neuroadaptive Cockpit: First Results.
- Vujic, Angela, Tong, Steph, Picard, Rosalind, Maes, Pattie.
Towards Gut-Brain Computer Interfacing: Gastric Myoelectric Activity as an Index of Subcortical Phenomena.
- Parada, Francisco, San Martín, Diego, Tomicic, Alemka, Rodriguez, Eugenio, Martinez, Claudio.
Towards Obtaining Longitudinal Brain/Body Functional Connectivity in Semi-Structured Natural Interaction Settings: A Preliminary Analysis.
- Tanaka, Hirokazu, Miyakoshi, Makoto.
Two extensions of trial reproducibility maximization for EEG data analysis.
WiseMotion is a concept which improves embodied cognition, self-awareness and collective understanding through dance and neuroscience. It is a series of masterclasses based on guided improvisation, neuroscientific explanation of the experience, and group conversation. In a WiseMotion masterclass, experience and knowledge come together and deepen understanding by utilizing the wisdom of both approaches. On the masterclass of the MoBI conference, we explore creative movement and neuroscience under the topic “Embodied Collaboration”.

Join us for a fabulous night at the famous Pan Am Lounge in Berlin, overseeing the city of Berlin at night.
Enjoy BBQ and drinks in a unique atmosphere of the Panam Lounge within mid-century luxury at the very heart of West-Berlin.
Session Chair: Juliet King
The session comprises presentations on the use of Mobile Brain/Body Imaging and movement analyses approaches in therapeutic interventions. How can these methods help to understand and improve therapeutic interventions and how do intervention using MoBI and movement science help us better understanding the interaction of the human body, brain and mind in relationship to pathologies.



Coffee and tea will be available in front of the poster room on the first floor
During the poster session on Friday, July 13th, coffee and tea will be available in front of the poster room.
Session Chair: Juliet King
The session comprises presentations on the use of Mobile Brain/Body Imaging and movement analyses approaches in therapeutic interventions. How can these methods help to understand and improve therapeutic interventions and how do intervention using MoBI and movement science help us better understanding the interaction of the human body, brain and mind in relationship to pathologies.



Meet our industrial partners for live demonstrations of their systems and discuss potential solutions for your research.
Demos will be presented at the respective booths in the exhibition area in front of the Immendorf room.
Session Chair: Klaus Gramann
The session gives new insights into the latest developments of MoBI in neuroergonomics. Presentation will provide insights into brain dynamics in realistic working environments, the use of EEG for neuroadaptive technologies and general Brain-Computer and Human-Machine Interfaces in realistic settings.



Coffee and tea will be available in front of the poster room on the first floor
During the poster session on Friday, July 13th, coffee and tea will be available in front of the poster room.
Session Chair: Klaus Gramann
The session gives new insights into the latest developments of MoBI in neuroergonomics. Presentation will provide insights into brain dynamics in realistic working environments, the use of EEG for neuroadaptive technologies and general Brain-Computer and Human-Machine Interfaces in realistic settings.


