Effects of Long-Term Meditation Practices on Sensorimotor Rhythm Based BCI Learning

摘要: Abstract Sensorimotor rhythm (SMR) based brain-computer interfaces (BCIs) provide an alternative pathway for users to perform motor control using imagery (MI). Despite the non-invasiveness, ease of use and low cost, this kind BCI has limitation due long training times inefficiency— where a subpopulation cannot generate decodable EEG signals task. Meditation is mental method improve mindfulness awareness, reported have positive effect on one’s state. Here we investigate behavioral electrophysiological differences between experienced meditators meditation naive subjects in 1-dimensional 2-dimensional cursor tasks. We found that within who room improvement, outperformed both tasks, there were fewer insufficient meditator group. Finally, also explored neurophysiological difference two groups, showed had higher SMR predictor better able achieve control.