Emergence of Novel Brain-Computer Interface Applications

Dear Colleagues,

Until the past decade, work in the burgeoning field of brain-computer interfaces (BCIs) was largely focused on feasibility studies, information transfer rate, and single user scenarios. As the field matures, it is growing to encompass various approaches and applications that transcend the original paradigms. BCIs have slowly but steadily moved outside strictly controlled laboratory conditions with P300, SSVEP, motor imagery — amongst other now well established methods — and into more realistic yet more complex areas such as neurorehabilitation and games.

This is an exciting time in BCI research, development and applications. As new areas and applications merge and emerge with BCIs at their core, some will inevitably be discarded while others will flourish. It is now timely to take stock of the most recent transitions in BCI applications and feedback paradigms and to provide the BCI research community with coverage of what might become more mainstream in the near and distant future. A special issue on the Emergence of Novel BCI Applications is therefore warranted. To this end, we invite authors to submit original research papers in BCIs and BCI-related areas, with an emphasis on novel and/or emerging techniques and applications.

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
• neurolinguistic BCIs
• clinical applications
• multidimensional control
• novel feedback paradigms
• exogenous/Endogenous Auditory BCI
• BCIs for independent living
• novel cognitive states
• long term BCI use
• BCIs and learning/plasticity
• machine-to-human BCIs
• collaborative (multi-user) BCIs

Dr. Francisco Sepulveda
Dr. Damien Coyle
Guest Editors

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