Congratulations to Viktorija Dimova-Edelva, Munich Institute of Robotics and Machine Intelligence, TUM, Stefan Ehrlich, Havard Medical School , and Gordon Cheng! Their paper on "Brain computer interface to distinguish between self and other related errors in human agent collaboration" has been published in Scientific Reports.

When a human and a machine collaborate on a shared task, ambiguous events might occur that could be perceived as an error by the human partner. In such events, spontaneous error-related potentials (ErrPs) are evoked in the human brain. Knowing whom the human perceived as responsible for the error would help a machine in co-adaptation and shared control paradigms to better adapt to human preferences. Therefore, we ask whether self- and agent-related errors evoke different ErrPs. The paper's results show that ErrPs can tell if a person relates an error to themselves or an external autonomous agent during collaboration.

Dimova-Edeleva, V., Ehrlich, S.K. & Cheng, G. Brain computer interface to distinguish between self and other related errors in human agent collaboration. Sci Rep 12, 20764 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-022-24899-8