BCI-CONNECT

The Project B-RELIABLE (concluded in July 2022), was focused on the research of neurofeedback and Brain-computer interfaces (BCI) approaches for neurodevelopmental disorders based on error monitoring and how error signals may contribute to the understanding of goal oriented decision-making and action. From the ISR developments, we highlight a gamified BCI approach based on non-volitional neurofeedback for cognitive training, aiming at reaching a neurorehabilitation tool for application in Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD). The BCI consists of an emotional facial paradigm (EFP) controlled by an intelligent agent that makes correct and wrong actions, while the user observes and judges the agent’s actions, and that learns through reinforcement learning (RL) an optimal strategy if the participant elicits Error-related Potentials (ErrPs) upon incorrect agent actions.