All Roads Lead to Rome: Resting-State Criticality as a Neurophysiological Marker of Brain-Computer Interface (BCI) Performance in People with Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS) and Healthy Participants
Tomko Settgast, Oren Shriki, Georg Northoff, Federico Zilio, Seyyed Bahram Borgheai, Yalda Shahriari, Andrea Kübler · 2026
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Tomko Settgast and six colleagues ask if rest-state brain waves can foretell how well a person will drive a brain-computer link. They study people with ALS, a nerve disease that locks the body, plus healthy peers. Their frame is the critical brain idea: the brain works best when it sits near a knife edge between calm and chaos.
The team read rest waves for bursts, rhythm slopes, and code-like richness, then set them next to later link scores. In the ALS group, all three marks tied to scores in a steady way. In healthy peers, burst marks tied the other way round. The authors sketch a U-shaped rule: both groups near the sweet spot, but from opposed sides. Such marks may one day flag who will thrive with a link.
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| CREATOR | Tomko Settgast, Oren Shriki, Georg Northoff, Federico Zilio, Seyyed Bahram Borgheai, Yalda Shahriari, Andrea Kübler |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 2 KB |
| LICENSE | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |