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.
arXiv:2606. 15091v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Millions of individuals worldwide suffer from sensory and communication deficits caused by neurodegenerative diseases, stroke, or trauma.
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.
arXiv:2605. 00025v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Speech neuroprosthesis systems decode intended speech from neural activity in the absence of audible output, offering a path to restoring communication for individuals with speech-impairing conditions.
arXiv:2608. 13576v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Brain-computer interface (BCI) research relies on multistage computational pipelines, yet progress remains constrained by fragmented data formats, heterogeneous decoder implementations and hardware-specific deployment toolchains, and researchers lack an integrated workflow.
arXiv:2606. 08594v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Deep learning EEG denoising architectures have scaled from tens of thousands to tens of millions of parameters, yet no prior study has isolated model capacity as the experimental variable or tested whether reconstruction metrics predict downstream neural-signal utility.
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.
arXiv:2607. 18749v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Translating brain signals into text could restore communication for people with severe paralysis, yet practically usable systems to date rely on invasive electrocorticography (ECoG).
arXiv:2606. 24394v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Electroencephalography (EEG) is the dominant non-invasive modality for brain-computer interfaces (BCIs), yet reliable decoding of motor imagery is hampered by inter- and intra-individual variability.
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.
Brain2Qwerty v2 is a model that decodes natural sentences from real‑time magnetoencephalography (MEG) recordings, achieving an average word error rate of 39% across 22,000 sentences typed by nine subjects. The model uses character, word, and sentence‑level representations and shows that decoding accuracy improves log‑linearly with more data, narrowing the gap to intracranial brain‑computer interfaces. AI contributes by replacing hand‑crafted event detection with deep learning, fine‑tuning large language models for semantic extraction, and employing AI agents to refine the decoding pipeline through automated code development.
arXiv:2607. 03094v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Electroencephalography (EEG) decoding for brain-computer interfaces (BCIs) faces a major challenge: substantial inter-subject variability limits effective cross-subject generalization.
arXiv:2607. 25423v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Eliciting explainable AI (XAI) requirements from stroke survivors presents a methodological challenge with direct implications for the design of trustworthy brain-computer interfaces for rehabilitation.