Can your EEG or EMG model still work when the person, recording session, or stimulus changes?
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.
Choose the problem you want to work on:
• EEG-to-Image: identify images from brain activity.
• BCI decoding: decode mental commands across recording sessions.
• Sleep onset: estimate time to sleep onset in unseen participants.
• EMG-to-Pose: predict hand pose from muscle signals.
Last year, 1,197 teams from more than 50 countries joined the EEG Foundation Challenge. This year, we’re expanding to EMG and new generalization tasks.
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.
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.
Thank you to the track teams and our prize sponsors, Meta, Muse by Interaxon, and Yneuro, for making this possible.
Choose your track and register: