Multi-sensor recordings are normally used in event-related potential (ERP)-based brain computer interfaces (BCIs), for capturing brain activities widely distributed over the cortical surface. However, this may lead to an increased number of sensors for boosting classification performance, as well as a complicated computational effort for optimizing/reducing sensors, limiting the popularization of mobile/wearable BCIs for the end use. The localization of brain activities may help fix this issue by making useful information concentrated on relatively local brain areas, thus greatly reducing the number of sensors required and computational burden arising from the sensor selection.
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