Tianjin University

EEG signals are only microvolts strong, so blinks, jaw clenching and muscle activity easily contaminate them. Researchers at Tianjin University and Tiangong University in northern China proposed MTGNet, a framework that suppresses these artifacts while preserving the information downstream tasks need. On the public EEGDenoiseNet dataset, it cut spectral relative root-mean-square error by 18.9%, 31.5% and 14.0% for EMG, EOG and mixed artifacts respectively; on a real-world fatigue EEG dataset, it raised classification accuracy by 6.20 to 6.69 percentage points over unprocessed input. Adapting the framework to a new task takes only 0.33 million low-rank adaptation (LoRA) parameters and no paired clean EEG reference.

A team at Tianjin University in northern China has built a graph neural network framework that jointly optimizes EEG channel selection and classification, picking a small subset of channels for motor imagery decoding while holding accuracy close to that of the full electrode set. Reported in the journal Chaos, the method was validated on three datasets — BCI Competition IV 2a, High Gamma and a newly collected set — and could cut system complexity for uses such as neurorehabilitation.

Researchers report that a BCI-controlled sixth-finger neurofeedback intervention improved motor function in stroke: after 8 sessions (2 weeks) of motor-imagery BCI training, 14 patients gained an average of 7.9 points on FMA-UE and 7.1 on the Barthel Index, with 9 of 14 reaching the 6.6-point minimally clinically important difference. EEG tracking across the full intervention showed a two-phase ERD trend that strengthened in week one and narrowed to the contralateral sensorimotor area in week two, and resting-state functional connectivity rose afterward, correlating with motor gains. The authors say the work offers longitudinal evidence on neuroplasticity in stroke rehabilitation.

The study recorded hippocampal CA1 population activity in rats performing a sequential spatial decision task in a modified T-maze, dividing the decision into initiation, running and approach phases. Local theta sequences consistently over-represented the actual choice, while prospective representations driven by choice-arm place cells shifted from predicting the actual choice during running to representing potential paths more evenly at the choice point. Integrating local and prospective features improved decoding, reaching 74.4% accuracy for future choice prediction and 78.2% for upcoming trajectory decoding.

Researchers released a multi-paradigm longitudinal EEG dataset from 24 stroke patients, covering a novel 'sixth-finger' motor imagery paradigm and affected-hand motor imagery. The dataset spans the full pre-training, post-training and follow-up stages and includes raw EEG, preprocessed data and patient clinical information. Preliminary analysis with classical classifiers (CSP+SVM, CSP+LDA) kept average cross-paradigm classification accuracy at roughly 85%–86%.