User Tutorial:P300 BCI Tutorial

This is the start page for a tutorial that will give you a step-by-step introduction into performing P300 BCI experiments with BCI2000. The tutorial is intended to provide some theoretical background, and to make you familiar with the most important practical aspects of BCI experiments.

Before working through this tutorial, you should be familiar with the nature of EEG signals, and the basics of EEG measurement. Also, the tutorial assumes that you are familiar with your amplifier, and have all the necessary driver software installed according to the amplifier's manual.

If you are new to BCI2000, we also recommend that you take the introductory BCI2000 Tour to make yourself comfortable with using BCI2000.

To do the tutorial, please work through each of the pages listed below, in sequence:

Tutorial Steps

• Introduction to the P300 Response

gives you an overview of the P300 response's origin and properties, and a conceptual description of a P300 based BCI.

• EEG Measurement Setup

describes the physical preparation required for EEG measurements.

• Obtaining P300 Parameters in an Initial Session

is a step-by-step description how to perform an initial session to acquire BCI configuration parameters.

• Analyzing the Initial P300 Session

demonstrates how to analyze data from the initial session in order to determine parameters for online classification.

• Configuring P300 Online Classification

shows you how to configure the BCI sytem using the configuration parameters acquired in the previous step.

• Performing a P300 Spelling Session

describes how to use the BCI system once it has been configured.