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    Exp Brain Res. 2005 Nov;167(1):132-5. Epub 2005 Oct 29.

    Magnetoencephalographic signals predict movement trajectory in space.

    Georgopoulos AP, Langheim FJ, Leuthold AC, Merkle AN.

    The Domenici Research Center for Mental Illness, Brain Sciences Center (11B), Veterans Affairs Medical Center, One Veterans Drive, Minneapolis, MN 55417, USA. omega@umn.edu

    Brain-machine interface (BMI) efforts have been focused on using either invasive implanted electrodes or training-extensive conscious manipulation of brain rhythms to control prosthetic devices. Here we demonstrate an excellent prediction of movement trajectory by real-time magnetoencephalography (MEG). Ten human subjects copied a pentagon for 45 s using an X-Y joystick while MEG signals were being recorded from 248 sensors. A linear summation of weighted contributions of the MEG signals yielded a predicted movement trajectory of high congruence to the actual trajectory (median correlation coefficient: r=0.91 and 0.97 for unsmoothed and smoothed predictions, respectively). This congruence was robust since it remained high in cross-validation analyses (based on the first half of data to predict the second half; median correlation coefficient: r=0.76 and 0.85 for unsmoothed and smoothed predictions, respectively).

    PMID: 16044305 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]

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