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arXiv Machine Learning By Lucas Yang, Rui Liu, Fusheng Wang

When More Is Not Better: Component Anti-Synergy in a P300 Speller

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The study investigates whether adding more components to a P300 brain‑computer interface speller always improves performance. Using a full‑factorial experiment on a public dataset, the authors varied Euclidean Alignment, xDAWN spatial filtering, subject calibration, and language model priors, and found that component effects are conditional rather than additive. Calibration was the most influential, while adding components could sometimes reduce performance, demonstrating component anti‑synergy and challenging the assumption that an ‘all‑on’ pipeline is best.

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