Cross-Subject EEG Decoding

EEG: Electroencephalography

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Cross-subject EEG decoding asks whether models trained on some people can recognize brain states in new people, a key challenge for brain-computer interfaces and clinical tools. Approaches include domain adaptation and alignment, Riemannian covariance methods, contrastive and self-supervised representation learning, and EEG foundation models; some use limited target-subject calibration, while others aim for zero-shot transfer. Studies commonly use leave-one-subject-out tests on motor imagery, emotion, and clinical EEG, but results vary by task and population. A central tension is balancing shared patterns with individual differences while ensuring gains are not caused by leakage or subject-identity shortcuts.

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  1. EEG-Based Decoding of Musical Mode and Melodic Direction Using Empirical Mode Decomposition

    Oct 27, 2026Sergio Guillén, Lorenzo J. Tardón, Ana M. Barbancho +1EEG DecodingMusic Understanding

    AUG Research Group. ITIS Software, Universidad de Málaga, 29071 Málaga, Spain

  2. FOCUS: A Lightweight Mamba-2 Model for EEG-Based Cognitive Workload Classification

    Oct 23, 2026Ioannis Kyprakis, Stefanos Gkikas, Chariklia Chatzaki +3EEG DecodingLightweight Neural Networks

    Hellenic Mediterranean University, Heraklion, Greece · Honda Research Institute Japan, Wako City, Japan · University of Canberra, Canberra, Australia +1

  3. CNN-based classifier for subject-independent MBTI Extraversion/Introversion preference classification from short-time EEG signals

    Oct 20, 2026Filip Postepski, Grzegorz M. WojcikConvolutional Neural NetworksCross-Subject EEG Decoding

    Department of Neuroinformatics and Biomedical Engineering, Institute of Computer Science and Mathematics, Maria Curie-Sk lodowska University, Akademicka 9, Lublin, 20-031, Lubelskie, Poland.

  4. Region-Specific EEG Classification of Hypnotic Susceptibility Using a Sliding-Window 2D CNN: A Subject-Independent Evaluation

    Oct 20, 2026Krzysztof Wrobel, Grzegorz M. WojcikClassificationCross-Subject EEG Decoding

    Department of Neuroinformatics and Biomedical Engineering, Institute of Computer Science, Maria Curie-Skłodowska University, Lublin, Poland

  5. EEG-Based Classification of Hypnotic Susceptibility Using Two-Dimensional Convolutional Neural Networks

    Oct 20, 2026Krzysztof Wrobel, Grzegorz M. Wojcik, Filip Postepski +3ClassificationEEG Decoding

    Department of Neuroinformatics and Biomedical Engineering, Institute of Computer Science, Maria Curie-Skłodowska University, Akademicka 9, 20-031 Lublin, Poland · Institute of Psychology, SWPS University, Chodakowska 19/31, 03-815 Warsaw, Poland

  6. Context-Aware Topological Distillation Graph Network for Asymmetric EEG-Eye Movement Emotion Recognition

    Oct 19, 2026Peijun Shi, Xiujin Zhu, Zhenguo Lao +4Multimodal Emotion RecognitionEEG Emotion Recognition

    Department of Electrical Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Universiti Malaya, 50603 Lembah Pantai, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. · Department of Neurosurgery, Union Hospital, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, Hubei 430022, China · Hubei Provincial Clinical Research Center for Brain Computer Interface, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, Hubei 430022, China.

  7. Seeing Seizures: A Large-Scale Empirical Study of Video and EEG Deep Learning for Automated Rodent Seizure Detection and Severity Grading

    Oct 15, 2026Alloy Das, Shreyan Ganguly, Nyzil Massey +4EEG Seizure DetectionElectroencephalography

    Iowa State University, Ames, IA, USA · Arkansas State University, Jonesboro, AR, USA

  8. Cross-subject decoding of imagined speech from scalp EEG: a leakage-controlled evaluation on three public corpora

    Oct 14, 2026Blessing Isoyiza Adeika, Onyema OsuagwuCross-Subject EEG DecodingBrain-Computer Interfaces

    Morgan State University, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

  9. EEG-Based Prediction of Music Enjoyment Using Deep Learning with Explainable Temporal Analysis

    Oct 14, 2026Parshav Singla, Simranjit Kaur, Maanya Walia +1Cross-Subject EEG Decoding

    1*Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Thapar Institute of Engineering and Technology, Patiala, Punjab, 147004, India.

  10. DEFT: Disentanglement-Enhanced Fine-Tuning for EEG Foundation Models

    Oct 10, 2026Yuqiu Deng, Muyun Jiang, Zongpeng Zhang +8EEG Foundation ModelsCross-Subject EEG Decoding

    Uploading Inc · College of Computing and Data Science, Nanyang Technological University · Department of Biostatistics, School of Public Health, Peking University +2

  11. SPDAlign: Interpretable Riemannian Alignment for EEG Forward Modeling Shifts

    Oct 5, 2026Shanglin Li, Shiwen Chu, Okan Koç +5Cross-Subject EEG DecodingUnsupervised Domain Adaptation

    BIFOLD, Germany · Technical University of Berlin, Germany · Advanced Telecommunications Research Institute International, Japan +2

  12. Modeling Shared and Individual Structure for Cross-Subject Continuous Affect Regression from EEG-fNIRS

    Oct 2, 2026Xuan Wang, Bing Wang, Shuai Chang +3Valence-Arousal ModelingAffective Computing

  13. Structured Visual Target Learning For Cross-Subject eeg-to-image retrieval

    Sep 29, 2026Salini Yadav, Taveena Lotey, Mickaël Coustaty +2Cross-Subject EEG DecodingVisual Representation Learning

    Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee, India · University of La Rochelle, France · Indian Institute of Technology (ISM) Dhanbad, India

  14. Best Practices in EEG Analysis: Preprocessing, Modeling, and Machine Learning

    Sep 29, 2026Parsa Razmara, Woojae Jeong, Aditya Kommineni +3ElectroencephalographyEEG Decoding

    University of Southern California · McGill University

  15. Separating personal from population gains when calibrating EEG foundation models for new users

    Sep 28, 2026Xilin Tao, Kani ChenCross-Subject EEG DecodingMI Classification

    Department of Mathematics, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong SAR, China · Department of Industrial Engineering and Decision Analytics, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong SAR, China

  16. T-SNN: Temporal Simplicial Neural Network for EEG Decoding

    Sep 27, 2026Nikita Malik, Shubhajit Roy, Mohit Kataria +4Cross-Subject EEG DecodingEEG Decoding

    Bharti School of Telecommunication Technology and Management Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi · Department of Computer Science & Engineering Indian Institute of Technology, Gandhinagar · Yardi School of Artificial Intelligence Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi +4

  17. ThinkNet: Evolutionary Deep Ensembles for Efficient Motor-Imagery EEG Classification

    Sep 27, 2026Abdul Basit, Saim Rehman, Muhammad ShafiqueCross-Subject EEG DecodingMI Classification

    eBRAIN Lab, Division of Engineering New York University (NYU) Abu Dhabi, Abu Dhabi, UAE

  18. Decoding Imagined Speech: A Strictly Subject-Independent Approach Using EEG

    Sep 24, 2026Frederik Møllskov Trier, Xiaopeng Mao, Sadasivan PuthusserypadyCross-Subject EEG DecodingElectroencephalography

    Department of Health Technology Technical University of Denmark Ørsteds Plads, 2800 Kgs. Lyngby, Denmark

  19. Adaptive Forgetting for Nonstationary Optimization: Towards Robust EEG Decoding

    Sep 21, 2026Hongyu Zhu, Lin Chen, Jing Chen +2Cross-Subject EEG DecodingAdaptive Gradient Methods

    Chongqing Institute of Green Intelligent Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences · Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications · School of Resources and Environment, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China

  20. RPA: Residual Patch-Token Adapter for Image Retrieval from EEG and MEG

    Sep 19, 2026Yuhui Jin, Yonghao Song, Bingchuan LiuCross-Subject EEG DecodingCross-Modal Representation Learning

    Vortek Lab Inc. · Department of Computer Science and Technology, Tsinghua University · Biology and Biological Engineering, California Institute of Technology

  21. Beyond Flattened Tokens: Structure-Preserving EEG Decoding with Reusable TriDim Blocks

    Sep 17, 2026Shiyue Su, Song Wang, Zekai Zhan +7Cross-Subject EEG DecodingEEG Decoding

    Department of Biomedical Engineering, Southern University of Science and Technology, Shenzhen, 518055, China. · Omni-Intelligence, Shenzhen, China. · Department of Computer Science, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen, 518172, China. +2

  22. iMINDBench: iEEG Multi-Institution Neural Decoding Benchmark

    Sep 16, 2026Geeling Chau, Saba Hashemi, Yonghyeon Gwon +9Cross-Subject EEG DecodingElectroencephalography

    Caltech · USC · Seoul National University +2

  23. Pretraining for Sample-Efficient Neural Interfaces

    Sep 11, 2026Ben Tang, Zachary Spalding, Gregory B. CoganBrain-Computer InterfacesSelf-Supervised Pre-Training

    Duke University, Durham, NC

  24. EEG-Driven Decoding Framework for Passenger Hazard Perception in Highly Automated Vehicles

    Sep 7, 2026Yingkai Yang, Ashton Yu Xuan Tan, Bowen Li +10Cross-Subject EEG DecodingEEG Decoding

    School of Vehicle and Mobility, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China · Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Imperial College London, London SW7 2AZ, United Kingdom · School of Medicine, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China +3

  25. ProCA: Progressive Contrastive Alignment for Robust EEG Visual Decoding

    Sep 4, 2026Kanglei Zhou, Chunyan Lan, Dongyang Li +2EEG-Based Visual DecodingContrastive Learning

    Department of Psychological and Cognitive Sciences, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China · School of Life Sciences, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China · Department of Computer Science and Technology, Institute for AI, BNRist Center, THBI Lab, Tsinghua-Bosch Joint Center for ML, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China

  26. EEG-VID: Task-Guided Latent Predictive Pretraining for EEG Decoding and Assistive Target Selection

    Sep 1, 2026Guanzhong Sun, Junyi Ma, Yuxuan Wu +2Cross-Subject EEG DecodingSelf-Supervised Pre-Training

    School of Information and Control Engineering, China University of Mining and Technology, Xuzhou, China · School of Automation and Intelligent Sensing, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China · Shanghai Innovation Institute, Shanghai, China +1

  27. Lightweight Adaptation of EEG Foundation Models for Stroke Motor Imagery Decoding: Domain Shift and Subject-Level Robustness

    Aug 31, 2026Anh T. Nguyen, Zihua Sun, Michelle J. JohnsonCross-Subject EEG DecodingMI Classification

    School of Engineering and Applied Science, Department of Bioengineering, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA · School of Engineering and Applied Science, Department of Electrical and Systems Engineering, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA · Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Department of Bioengineering, and Department of Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA

  28. Cross-Subject Generalization in Decoding Perceived Speech from Non-Invasive Brain Recordings

    Aug 23, 2026Aoke Zhang, Bo Wang, Xihong Wu +2Cross-Subject EEG DecodingNeural Decoding

    Speech and Hearing Research Center, School of Intelligence Science and Technology and the Center for BioMed-X Research, Academy for Advanced Interdisciplinary Studies, Peking University, Beijing, China · Speech and Hearing Research Center, School of Intelligence Science and Technology, Peking University, Beijing, China, and also with the National Key Laboratory of General Artificial Intelligence, Beijing, China · Center for BioMed-X Research, Academy for Advanced Interdisciplinary Studies, Peking University, Beijing, China

  29. SCORE: Subject Coordinate Recovery for Label-Free Cross-Subject EEG-to-Image Retrieval

    Aug 19, 2026Zhenyao Cui, Siyuan Kan, Siyang Li +2Cross-Subject EEG DecodingEEG-Based Visual Decoding

    School of Artificial Intelligence and Automation, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China

  30. EEG Decoding Using CNN and LSTM Network

    Aug 13, 2026Athanasios KaragounisCross-Subject EEG DecodingMI Classification

    School of Science, Department of Digital Industry Technologies GR34400, Psachna, Greece