<div dir="ltr"><p><font size="4">Hello, connectionists e-mail list! </font></p><p><font size="4">Can your EEG or EMG model still work when the person, recording session, or stimulus changes? </font></p>
<p><font size="4">That’s what we’re testing in the EEG/EMG Foundation Challenge 2026. Registration is open, with four tracks and $20,000 in total awards.</font></p>
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<p><font size="4">Choose the problem you want to work on:</font></p><ul><li><font size="4">EEG-to-Image: <span class="Q6ibn ng" style="border-style:none;background:none">identify</span> images from brain activity.</font></li><li><font size="4">BCI decoding: decode mental commands across recording sessions.</font></li><li><font size="4">Sleep onset: estimate time to sleep onset in unseen participants.</font></li><li><font size="4">EMG-to-Pose: predict hand pose from muscle signals.</font></li></ul><p><font size="4">Last year, 1,197 teams from more than 50 countries joined the <span class="Q6ibn ng" style="border-style:none;background:none">Neurips</span> EEG Foundation Challenge 2025. <br><br>This year, we are expanding to EMG and new generalization tasks!</font></p>
<p><font size="4">You can enter one track or all four. NeuralBench already has public starter data, guides, and baselines, so you can get your pipeline running before submissions open on September 21.</font></p>
<p><font size="4">The warm-up runs through October 25, followed by evaluation on hidden data until November 21. Winners will be celebrated at the NeurIPS Brain & Body Workshop in Sydney on December 11–12.</font></p>
<p><font size="4">Thank you to the track teams and our prize sponsors, Meta, Muse by Interaxon, and Yneuro, for making this possible. </font></p><p><font size="4">Choose your track and register:</font></p><div><font size="4"><a href="https://neural-interfaces26.github.io/register.html">https://neural-interfaces26.github.io/register.html</a></font></div><div><br></div><div><br clear="all"></div>All the best,<div><span class="gmail_signature_prefix">-- </span><br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><font color="#888888"><font color="#888888">Bruno Aristimunha<br></font><div><font color="#888888">PhD in Computer Science (<a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Pba371Sv7Epgjz5kMwT2t8i3PgueNhpE8hN1nAR98iU/edit?usp=sharing" target="_blank">Resume</a>)</font></div><div><font color="#888888"><div><div dir="ltr"><a href="https://bruaristimunha.github.io/" target="_blank">https://bruaristimunha.github.io</a></div></div></font><font color="#888888"><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/bruaristimunha/" target="_blank">https://www.linkedin.com/in/bruaristimunha/</a><br></font></div><div><div dir="ltr"><font color="#888888">Go open-source! </font><a href="https://github.com/bruAristimunha" target="_blank">https://github.com/bruAristimunha</a></div><div dir="ltr">__________________________________________</div><div dir="ltr">I work flexibly, so whilst it suits me to email you now, I do not expect a response or action outside of your own working hours.</div></div></font></div></div></div></div>