This scoping review examines how brain‑computer interfaces (BCIs) can restore sensory and motor functions in people with severe neurological impairment. It introduces a unified 2×2 framework (invasiveness × signal direction) to map 31 key studies, highlighting that most evidence comes from invasive, efferent‑restoration approaches post‑2015. The paper outlines a roadmap toward closed‑loop, bidirectional restoration and identifies gaps in metric standardization, longitudinal data, and cross‑community collaboration.
By Xuan-The Tran
arXiv:2607. 05165v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Non-invasive brain-to-speech decoding aims to restore communication to patients suffering from neurodegenerative disease, without the risks of neurosurgery.
By Benjamin Ballyk, Teyun Kwon, Miran \"Ozdogan, Oiwi Parker Jones
Brain4FMs is a unified benchmark for evaluating brain foundation models (BFMs) on both scalp EEG and intracranial EEG (iEEG). It incorporates 17 representative models and 21 public datasets spanning clinical diagnosis, sleep staging, communication, and affective computing, and offers dataset-aware preprocessing, cross‑subject evaluation, and standardized downstream workflows. The benchmark highlights that no single BFM consistently outperforms others across all tasks, modalities, and adaptation protocols, prompting further exploratory analyses of model‑specific spatial, spectral, and discrete representations.
By Fanqi Shen, Enhong Yang, Jiahe Li, Junru Hong, Xiaoran Pan, Zhizhang Yuan, Meng Li, Yang Yang
arXiv:2608. 02070v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Brain-computer interfaces (BCIs) have been widely used in motor rehabilitation, disease diagnosis, and other neural engineering scenarios.
By Zhu Chen, Dingkun Liu, Yuheng Chen, Dongrui Wu
arXiv:2609.36736v1 Announce Type: cross
Abstract: Speech brain-computer interfaces (BCIs) aim to restore communication by transforming neural activity related to speech, language, or communicative in...
By Moein Khajehnejad, Forough Habibollahi, Tommaso Boccato, Margarida Sousa, Michal Olak, Francesco Jamal Sheiban, Matteo Ferrante
arXiv:2609.13507v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Brain-computer interfaces (BCIs) decode neural activity to restore lost function. Typically, training a high-performance neural decoder requires a larg...
By Ben Tang, Zachary Spalding, Gregory B. Cogan
EEG-AS is an instance-level algorithm selection framework designed for EEG foundation models. It characterizes each EEG instance using latent embeddings, handcrafted neurophysiological features, and an anchor foundation model, then learns to reconstruct the behaviors of other foundation models from privileged prediction tokens. During inference, EEG-AS estimates these behaviors without running the full model portfolio, enabling efficient selection among seven EEG foundation models and significantly reducing the performance gap between the single best solver and the oracle upper bound across seven public EEG benchmarks.
By Yunzhen Zhang, Ruoxi Piao, Hasan Onur Keles, Mustafa Misir
TriRouter is a new electrode‑space routing framework designed to improve motor‑imagery brain‑computer interface decoding from multichannel EEG when electrode montages are sparse or corrupted. It incorporates discriminative‑preservation, mask‑robustness, and latent‑compensation paths, and uses a validation‑calibrated router that allocates path contributions based on observable channel availability. In the BNCI2014‑001 dataset, TriRouter outperforms standard public backbones and a dynamic‑spatial‑filtering corrupted‑EEG baseline, achieving accuracy gains of 3.68, 4.02, and 6.46 percentage points at 25%, 50%, and 75% missing settings, and remains effective under structured regional missingness and low‑channel evaluations.
By Ying Zhou, Yaoxin, Mengting Liu
arXiv:2603. 19100v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Electroencephalography (EEG) enables non-invasive monitoring of brain activity across clinical and neurotechnology applications, yet building foundation models for EEG remains challenging due to differing electrode topologies and computational scalability, as Transformer architectures incur quadratic sequence complexity.
By Dana\'e Broustail, Anna Tegon, Thorir Mar Ingolfsson, Yawei Li, Luca Benini
arXiv:2609.22128v1 Announce Type: cross
Abstract: The wrist plays a critical role in upper-limb function by enabling precise hand positioning, force regulation, and object manipulation. Continuous br...
By Ye Sun, Mingxuan Qu, Jing Wang, Dezhong Yao, Gang Liu
arXiv:2609.36609v1 Announce Type: cross
Abstract: Electroencephalography (EEG) analysis requires careful choices in preprocessing, statistical modeling, and machine learning because EEG signals are h...
By Parsa Razmara, Woojae Jeong, Aditya Kommineni, Raymundo Cassani, Richard Leahy, Takfarinas Medani
arXiv:2608. 02070v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Brain-computer interfaces (BCIs) have been widely used in motor rehabilitation, disease diagnosis, and other neural engineering scenarios.
By Zhu Chen, Dingkun Liu, Yuheng Chen, Dongrui Wu