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This integration has generated developments and new methods that can be applied in alternative situations, highlighting, for example, aspects related to post-stroke therapies, Multiple Sclerosis (MS), or Spinal Cord Injury (SCI) treatments. One of the methods that has stood out and is gaining more acceptance every day is Brain\u2013Computer Interfaces (BCIs), through the acquisition and processing of brain electrical activity, researchers, doctors, and scientists manage to transform this activity into control signals. In turn, there are several methods for operating a BCI, this work will focus on motor imagery (MI)-based BCI and three types of acquisition paradigms (traditional arrow, picture, and video), seeking to improve the accuracy in the classification of motor imagination tasks for naive subjects, which correspond to a MI task for both the left and the right hand. A pipeline and methodology were implemented using the CAR+CSP algorithm to extract the features and simple standard and widely used models such as LDA and SVM for classification. The methodology was tested with post-stroke (PS) subject data with BCI experience, obtaining 96.25% accuracy for the best performance, and with the novel paradigm proposed for the naive subjects, 97.5% was obtained. Several statistical tests were carried out in order to find differences between paradigms within the collected data. 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