A Generic Error-related Potential Classifier Offers a Comparable Performance to a Personalized Classifier

Brain-computer interfaces (BCIs) provide more independence to people with severe motor disabilities but current BCIs’ performance is still not optimal and often the user’s intentions are misinterpreted. Error-related potentials (ErrPs) are the neurophysiological signature of error processing and their detection can help improving a BCI’s performance.A major inconvenience of BCIs is that they commonly require a long calibration period, before the user can receive feedback of their own brain signals. Here, we use the data of 15 participants and compare the performance of a personalized ErrP classifier with a generic ErrP classifier. We concluded that there was no significant difference in classification performance between the generic and the personalized classifiers (Wilcoxon signed rank tests, two-sided and one-sided left and right). This results indicate that the use of a generic ErrP classifier is a good strategy to remove the calibration period of a ErrP classifier, allowing participants to receive immediate feedback of the ErrP detections.

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