Final Technical Report August 1975

ADAOI 7405

FEASIBILITY STUDY FOR DESIGN OF A BIOCYBERNETIC COMMUNICATION SYSTEM

Prepared for:

DIRECTOR, ADVANCED RESEARCH PROJECTS AGENCY

ARCHITECT BUILDING, 1400 WILSON BOULEVARD
ARLINGTON, VIRGINIA 22209
Attention: DR. GEORGE LAWRENCE, PROGRAM MANAGER

ARPA Order No. 2034 CONTRACT DAHC-15--72-C-0167

Program Code No. 2020 Principal Investigators:
Contractor: Stanford Research Institute Dr. L. R. Pinneo
Effective Date of Contract: (415) 326-6200 (Ext. 3666)
9 February 1972 Mr. D. J. Hall
Contract Expiration Date: (415) 326-6200 (Ext. 3729)
31 August 1975 Short Title:
Amount of Contract: $338,254 Biocybernetic Communication

SRI Project LSU-1936

Approved by:

W.A. SKINNER.’ Executive Director

Life Sciences Division

REPRODUCED BY: NTIS

U.S~ Department of Commerce
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 CONTENTS

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS v

LIST OF TABLES ix

PREFACE xi

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS xiii

SUMMARY 1

Part I- -Biocybernetic Communication 2

Off-Line Analysis, Overt Classification 2
Off-Line Analysis, Covert Classification . 3
Articulatory, Semantic, and Contextual Components 3
On-Line Analysis 4
Conclusions 6
Part Il--Hemispheric Laterality .. 7
Dichotic Correlations 7
EEC Asymmetry and Word Classification .. 7
Target Recognition and EEG Alpha Asymmetry .. 9

Rationale of Approach, Biocybernetic Communication 13

Rationale of Approach, Hemispheric Laterality 15

Introduction 17
Off-Line Analysis, Overt Classification 17
Subjects 17
Apparatus 17
Procedure 22
Data Analysis 23
Results 34
Analysis of Covert Speech 44
Introduction 44
Methods 44
Results 45
Error Reduction 48

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