Natural image reconstruction from brain waves: a novel visual BCI system with native feedback

Both scenarios have some advantages which are, unfortunately, overweighed with severe limitations that hinder implementations of BCI technology in real-world tasks. Thus, in synchronous BCI paradigms, a wide variety of stimuli, including visual categories, can be utilized to explore and measure the evoked responses of a particular subject [1]. However, the whole set of stimuli has to be successively presented to the subject each time to determine his intention, which makes such approach inconvenient for the applications requiring fast, real-time control of an external device. Motor-imagery or other asynchronous BCIs do not require any external stimuli presentation, which allows a subject to produce voluntary mental commands at his own wish. At the same time, the ability of different subjects to perform various mental tasks is variable and depends on their personal physiological parameters and experience [2].