What has been the history of BCI research up to 2015?

For a paper providing a more detailed history of the development of brain-computer interface technology in the United states, see the slides of this 42-page slideshare PDF (or the transcript which follows it) for the topics that interest you: History of brain-computer interface research in the U.S..

The chapters are as follows:

• 1. Introduction – Slide No. 1
• 2. The evolution of brain computer interfacing – Slide No. 3
• 3. History of brain computer interfacing – Slide No. 5
• 4. Brain computer interfacing versus neuroprosthetics – Slide No. 7
• 5. BCI Performance – Slide No. 9
  • Geography of Thought – Slide No. 11
    • This section describes the cerebral cortex, and describes limitations of brain implants.
  • Brain imaging technologies – Slide No. 11
  • Measuring brain activity – Slide No. 12
    • This section describes three ways to detect the brain’s electrical activities: EEG, EcoG, and Intracortical recordings.
  • Electroencephalography (EEG) – Slide No. 14
  • Dry active electrode arrays – Slide No. 15
  • Prosthesis control – Slide No. 16
  • Mental strategies and brain patterns – Slide No. 16
  • Selective Attention – Slide No. 17

    • A BCI based on selective attention could rely on five stimuli. Four stimuli are associated with the commands for cursor movement: left, right, up, and down. The fifth stimulus is for the select command. . . . These approaches are named after the brain patterns they produce, which are called P300 potentials and steady-state visual evoked potentials (SSVEP).

  • Motor imagery – Slide No. 18
  • Prosthesis control – Slide No. 20
  • Signal processing – Slide No. 20
• 6. Animal BCI research – Slide No. 22
• 7. Human BCI research – Slide No. 26
  • Partially invasive BCIs – Slide No. 28
  • Noninvasive BCIs – Slide No. 28
  • Neurogaming – Slide No. 29
  • Synthetic Telepathy/Silent communication – Slide No. 29
• 8. Other research – Slide No. 31
• 9. The BCI award – Slide No. 40
• 10. Low-cost BCI-based interfaces – Slide No. 41

If you wish to read a well–written article differentiating brain-computer interface technology from psychological phenomena, which phenomena seem to slightly overlap BCI accomplishments, visit the next page. WARNING: The article speaks of BCI output as “tricks.” We suggest “tricks” means “imperfectly rendered electrical / neurological brain signals.”