Studying the Effect of the Pre-Stimulation Paradigm on Steady-State Visual Evoked Potentials with Dynamic Models Based on the Zero-Pole Analytical Method

Shangen Zhang; Xu Han; Xiaorong Gao

doi:10.26599/TST.2019.9010028

Tsinghua Science and Technology 2020, 25(3): 435-446 https://doi.org/10.26599/TST.2019.9010028

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Studying the Effect of the Pre-Stimulation Paradigm on Steady-State Visual Evoked Potentials with Dynamic Models Based on the Zero-Pole Analytical Method

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Department of Biomedical Engineering, School of Medicine, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China.

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Steady-State Visual Evoked Potential (SSVEP), brain-computer interface, dynamic model, pre-stimulation, zero and pole analysis

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Zhang S, Han X, Gao X. Studying the Effect of the Pre-Stimulation Paradigm on Steady-State Visual Evoked Potentials with Dynamic Models Based on the Zero-Pole Analytical Method. Tsinghua Science and Technology, 2020, 25(3): 435-446. https://doi.org/10.26599/TST.2019.9010028

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This study explored methods for improving the performance of Steady-State Visual Evoked Potential (SSVEP)-based Brain-Computer Interfaces (BCI), and introduced a new analytical method to quantitatively analyze and reflect the characteristics of SSVEP. We focused on the effect of the pre-stimulation paradigm on the SSVEP dynamic models and the dynamic response process of SSVEP, and performed a comparative analysis of three pre-stimulus paradigms (black, gray, and white). Four dynamic models with different orders (second- and third-order) and with and without a zero point were used to fit the SSVEP envelope. The zero-pole analytical method was adopted to conduct quantitative analysis on the dynamic models, and the response characteristics of SSVEP were represented by zero-pole distribution characteristics. The results of this study indicated that the pre-stimulation paradigm affects the characteristics of SSVEP, and the dynamic models had good fitting abilities with SSVEPs under various types of pre-stimulation. Furthermore, the zero-pole characteristics of the models effectively characterize the damping coefficient, oscillation period, and other SSVEP characteristics. The comparison of zeros and poles indicated that the gray pre-stimulation condition corresponds to a lower damping coefficient, thus showing its potential to improve the performance of SSVEP-BCIs.

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Studying the Effect of the Pre-Stimulation Paradigm on Steady-State Visual Evoked Potentials with Dynamic Models Based on the Zero-Pole Analytical Method

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Department of Biomedical Engineering, School of Medicine, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China.

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Keywords: Steady-State Visual Evoked Potential (SSVEP), brain-computer interface, dynamic model, pre-stimulation, zero and pole analysis

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Received: 21 June 2019

Revised: 18 July 2019

Accepted: 01 August 2019

Published: 07 October 2019

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This work was supported by the Key Research and Development Program of Guangdong Province (No. 2018B030339001); the National Key Research and Development Program of China (No. 2017YFB1002505), and the National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 61431007).

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