Southeast University

Nanjing has built end-to-end competitiveness across the brain-computer interface industry chain, People's Daily Online reported on July 28, 2026. According to the report, the city earlier issued an action plan to become a national hub for BCI industry innovation and has set up a 3+3+3 BCI industry innovation system, drawing on universities including Southeast University and Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics to build 3 provincial- and ministerial-level key laboratories, and landing three core platforms covering neural signal coding and decoding, dedicated chips and brain imaging. The 2026 national BCI conference was also held in Nanjing. The report summed up the city's strengths as research, medical resources, application scenarios and capital ecosystem.

An EEG study finds that unilateral lower-limb motor imagery and motor execution elicit similar lateralized neural activity patterns, extending a lateralization pattern long known in the upper limb to the lower limb.