I2R BCI Team Receives the Top Prize at International Annual BCI Research Award

Singapore, June 17, 2010 - (ACN Newswire) - The I2R Brain-Computer Interface (BCI) team led by Dr Guan Cuntai working jointly with medical doctors from Tan Tock Seng Hospital (Dr Karen Chua Sui Geok, Mr Christopher Kuah) and National Neuroscience Institute (Associate Professor Ang Beng Ti) wonthe Annual BCI Research Award for their project "Motor imagery-based Brain-Computer Interface robotic rehabilitation for stroke". The team had embarked on this project from April 2007 to Oct 2009. The prize, worth USD$3,000, is to recognize outstanding and innovative research done in the field of Brain-Computer Interfaces. Each year, a renowned research laboratory is asked to judge the submitted projects and to award the prize. The jury consists of world-leading BCI experts recruited by theawarding laboratory.