Table 1.
Design of the two experiments. Differences and similarities between them.
| Sessions | Experiment Healthy Participants | Experiment Healthy Participants | Experiment Stroke Patients | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| S1 | S2 | S3 | S4 | S5 | S6 | S7 | S1 | S2 | ||||
| Purpose | 1. Influence of the session-to-session and arm-to-arm transfers on the decoding performance 2. Generalization ability of mirror decoders |
Compliance conditions for the calibration session | Preliminary tests of the effectiveness of the system in stroke patients | |||||||||
| Participants | 8 healthy individuals | 5 healthy individuals | 2 chronic stroke patients | |||||||||
| Arm side | Right | Right | Left | Right | Left | Left | Right | Right (healthy) | Left (paretic) | |||
| Tasks | T1, T2, T3, T4 + Free movements | T1, T2, T3 | T1, T2 (Patient 1); T1, T2, T3, T4 (Patient 2) | |||||||||
| Compliance | Active | Active | Active | Compliant | Compliant | Compliant | ||||||