“…The brain-computer interface (BCI) provides an interlink between the brain and external devices (Vidal, 1973 ; Wolpaw et al, 2002 ). The information received from the brain in the form of physiological/magnetic/metabolic signals is decoded and interpreted to determine the user intentions, and is later utilized for various purposes, such as rehabilitation (Do et al, 2013 ; Khan R. A. et al, 2018 ); control of robots (Doud et al, 2011 ; Bozinovski, 2016 ; Khan A. H. et al, 2018 ; Rosca et al, 2018 ; Duan et al, 2019 ) and of prosthetics (Buch et al, 2018 ; Yanagisawa et al, 2019 ); and neurogaming (Paszkiel, 2016 , 2020 ; Vasiljevic and de Miranda, 2020 ). Among the existing non-invasive acquisition methods, arguably EEG (Wolpaw et al, 2002 ; Pfurtscheller et al, 2006 ; Choi, 2013 ; Abiri et al, 2019 ) and fNIRS (Ferrari et al, 1985 ; Delpy et al, 1988 ; Coyle et al, 2004 , 2007 ; Fazli et al, 2012 ; Naseer and Keum-Shik, 2015 ; Yin et al, 2015 ) are considered the most explored.…”