STUDYING THE ABILITY TO CONTROL HUMAN PHANTOM FINGERS IN P300 BRAIN-COMPUTER INTERFACE

In this work we have tested the assumption that an individual can control a target finger of a phantom by voluntarily focusing his attention on the luminous marker located on that finger in the complex of a P300 wave-based brain-computer interface (P300 BCI) and an anthropomorphic phantom. Because each correct movement of phantom fingers indicates a sufficient mental effort aimed at this action, creating a new ideomotor training simulator of smaller movements of the hand becomes possible. Our study included 21 volunteer subjects of both sexes aged 18-25. It was shown that with P300 BCI complex the subjects learned to control phantom fingers on the first day of the experiment, the percentage of successful attempts being no less than 69 %. Failures were mainly related to the insufficient attention focus on luminous markers on the target phantom fingers. We hypothesize that P300 BCI - Hand Phantom complex can be a basis for developing a fine motor skills simulator.