RT Journal Article T1 Different effects of using pictures as stimuli in a P300 brain-computer interface under rapid serial visual presentation or row-column paradigm A1 Fernández-Rodríguez, Álvaro A1 Medina-Juliá, María Teresa A1 Velasco-Álvarez, Francisco Javier A1 Ron-Angevin, Ricardo K1 Pacientes - Innovaciones tecnológicas AB Previous proposals for controlling a P300-based BCI speller have shown an improvement using alternative images instead of letters as target stimuli under a row–column paradigm (RCP). However, the RCP is not suitable for those patients with a lack of gaze control. To solve that, the rapid serial visual presentation (RSVP) paradigm has been proposed in previous studies. The aim of the present work is to assess if a set of alternative pictures that improved performance in RCP could also improve performance in RSVP. Sixteen participants controlled four conditions in calibration and online tasks: letters in RCP, pictures in RCP, letters in RSVP and pictures in RSVP. The effect given by pictures was greater under RCP than under RSVP, both for performance and event-related potential analyses. Indeed, pictures did not show any improvement under RSVP in comparison to letters. In addition, the condition with pictures under RCP was declared the favourite by most users (68.75%), while the condition with pictures under RSVP was not chosen as favourite by any participant. Therefore, this work shows that the improvement related to the use of pictures as alternative flashing stimuli under RCP may not be transferred to RSVP. PB Springer Nature YR 2021 FD 2021-03-20 LK https://hdl.handle.net/10630/33718 UL https://hdl.handle.net/10630/33718 LA eng NO Fernández-Rodríguez, Á., Medina-Juliá, M.T., Velasco-Álvarez, F. et al. Different effects of using pictures as stimuli in a P300 brain-computer interface under rapid serial visual presentation or row-column paradigm. Med Biol Eng Comput 59, 869–881 (2021). NO This work was partially supported by the project SICCAU: RTI2018-100912-B-I00 (MCIU/AEI/FEDER, UE). DS RIUMA. Repositorio Institucional de la Universidad de Málaga RD 20 ene 2026