This is a fork of NeuroTechX's list of tools, resources, and learning materials related to Brain-Computer Interfaces (BCI). The list is maintained by the NeuroTechX community.
This fork is edited by Lambdao to help separate entries based on whether they are free/open-source or commercial/closed-source. Refer to the original version for the original list.
- NeuroTechEDU's Awesome List of BCI-related Resources
Linux compatibility markers: 🐧 native Linux support, 🍷 confirmed working through Wine, 💀 confirmed not working on Linux.
GNU Octave compatibility markers for MATLAB toolboxes: ⭕ confirmed support,
These applications help you design BCI experiments, run them, collect data, and analyze the results.
Free/open-source software:
- 🐧 EEG-ExPy: Free & Open-Source (FOSS) Python library for EEG & experiment design, recording, and analysis. Maintained by the EEG-ExPy team within NeuroTechX. CNS2024 Poster
- 🐧 OpenViBE (source): A software platform dedicated to designing, testing, and using Brain-Computer Interfaces, maintained by the OpenViBE Consortium.
- 🐧 BCI2000 (source): Software suite with GUI based on C++ for data acquisition, stimulus presentation, and brain monitoring applications.
- 🐧 Brainstorm (source): Collaborative, open-source application dedicated to the analysis of brain recordings: MEG, EEG, fNIRS, ECoG, depth electrodes and multiunit electrophysiology.
- 🍷 BrainBay (source): Bio- and neurofeedback application working with various hardware frameworks including OpenBCI/OpenEEG.
- 🐧 MNE (source): MNE-Python is an open-source Python module for processing, analysis, and visualization of functional neuroimaging data (EEG, MEG, sEEG, ECoG, and fNIRS). The tools suite includes interoperable packages in Python, MATLAB, C++, etc., which operate in GUI, CLI, or API.
- 🐧 PsychoPy Builder (source): PsychoPy is an open-source application for creating experiments in neuroscience, psychology, and psychophysics.
- 🐧 PsychToolBox (source): Psychophysics Toolbox Version 3 (PTB-3) is a free set of Matlab and GNU Octave functions for vision and neuroscience research.
Commercial/closed-source software:
- ❔ EventIDE: EventIDE is a software platform for designing and running multimodal experiments, with an IDE.
- 🐧 Neuromore Studio: Biofeedback suite for building neurofeedback protocols and visualizing biosignals in real time. Its source is public, but it requires the Neuromore cloud backend to run.
- 🐧 NeuroPype: platform for real-time brain-computer interfacing (BCI), neuroimaging, and neural signal processing, which supports a range of biosignal modalities including EEG, fNIRS, ExG, etc.
Note: MATLAB itself is proprietary. Some listed MATLAB toolboxes may also work in GNU Octave, but compatibility varies significantly.
Officially supports GNU Octave:
- 🐧 ⭕ Psychtoolbox (source): Officially supports GNU Octave, especially on Linux.
Partial compatibility with GNU Octave:
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⚠️ EEGLab (source): Octave support exists, but EEGLAB recommends MATLAB first; GUI, graphics, plugins, speed, and ICLabel have caveats. -
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⚠️ FieldTrip (source): Core computations may work in Octave, but FieldTrip primarily targets MATLAB and some plotting functions are MATLAB-specific. -
🐧 ⛔ BCILab (source): Documented as a MATLAB toolbox; GUI use requires MATLAB.
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🐧 ❔ BBCI: Octave compatibility is not clearly documented.
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🐧 ⛔ ERPLAB (source): Current compatibility notes require MATLAB toolboxes; MVPC routines require recent MATLAB versions.
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🐧 ❔ Chronux (source): Octave compatibility is not clearly documented.
- BciPy
- Thunder
- Pyff
- Mushu
- Wyrm
- EEGrunt
- Cloudbrain
- MNE-Python
- OpenNFB
- bcikit
- PsychoPy (source)
- BioSPPy
- Timeflux (source)
- EEGsynth
- pyRiemann
- MOABB
- NeuroPrime
- Braindecode (source)
- Brainflow (source)
- EEG-ExPy
- PyBCI
- mw75-streamer
Free/open-source software:
Commercial/closed-source software:
- MindMonitor: iOS App Store, Google Play Store. The app provides data export and code samples, but the app source itself is not published.
These are some of the commonly used Communication protocols.
This section is separated into different sections based on the types of technology.
Electroencephalography is the most commonly used form of Neurotechnology. There are many options out there meaning that you can easily find a device that matches your needs and price.
Some of these devices are still supported and actively developed by manufacturers, community members, or researchers. Others are no longer supported but may still have a community of users who can help you get access.
- Synchron Stentrode: An investigational, minimally invasive BCI that is implanted into a blood vessel in the brain without open-brain surgery, enabling paralyzed individuals to control digital devices.
- Kernel Flow: Non-invasive, light-based neuroimaging (TD-fNIRS) system used for wellness tracking, cognitive function assessment, and mental health monitoring.
- Neurable MW75 Neuro & HyperX Gaming Headset: Non-invasive BCI technology integrated into high-end headphones and gaming headsets, providing real-time insights into focus and cognitive load.
- Neurosity Crown: Third-generation BCI with high-fidelity EEG signal processing and embedded edge computing for real-time data analysis.
- Blackrock Neurotech MoveAgain & Axon-R: MoveAgain is an advanced clinical BCI system (implanted electrode array) for paralyzed users, while Axon-R is a non-invasive AR-enabled BCI headset.
- Muse 2016, Muse 2, Muse S
- OpenBCI Ganglion, Cyton, Daisy, Galea
- IDUN Guardian
- BrainBit Headband & Flex
- Emotiv EPOC, Flex, Insight
- Dreem by Beacon Biosignals
- CGX (formerly Cognionics): Research-grade dry-electrode EEG systems.
- Elemind
- Neurosky
- FreeEEG32: an open source 32 channel eeg
- EEG-SMT by Olimex
- HackEEG
- icibici
- OpenEEG
- Wearable Sensing Dry Electrode EEG
- g.tec
- EGI High Density EEG
- BioSemi
- ANT Neuro
- Advanced Brain Monitoring
- Brain Products
- Mentalab Explore
- Natus Neuro
- TMSi
- Emotiv Flex Gel & Emotiv Flex Saline
- Florida Research Instruments
- DIY Electrode Design
- TI ADS1299EEG-FE: Analog Front End for EEG solutions. e.g., in OpenBCI Cyton.
- Intan Technologies: Microchips and miniature recording & stimulation headstages.
- IDUN Dryode: Adhesive dry electrodes for EEG.
- Bio-Medical: For supplies and consumables
- Comparison of different types of electrodes
Near-Infrared Spectroscopy (NIRS) is a technology that measures the concentration of hemoglobin in each brain region, which can be used to infer energy expenditure and hence higher activity in that region.
- Artinis Medical Systems
- CortiVision
- Hitachi Hightech
- NIRx
- Shimadzu
- Kernel Flow: EEG + TD-fNIRS
These devices combine different type of sensors to measure or influence brain activity.
- Foc.us Dev kit: EEG,TDCS,fNIRS,TACS
- Neuroelectrics: EEG,TDCS
- BITalino: EEG,EMG,ECG,EDA
- Emotibit: EDA,PPG,Temperature
- DIY TMS: Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (TMS)
- Boston Scientific: DBS, SCS
- Medtronic: DBS, tES, SCS
- Magstim: TMS
- Soterix Medical: TDCS, tACS, tRNS
- Clarity: Light & Stimulation therapy for Alzheimer's Disease
- Vielight: Transcranial Photobiomodulation
- Neuroelectrics: tDCS, tACS, tRNS
- NeuroPace: RNS
- NerveX: VNS in canine epilepsy.
- NeuroSigma: eTNS
- Brainsway: Deep TMS
- Functional Ultrasound (FUS): Resource hub for functional ultrasound neuroimaging.
- Event Related Optical Signal
- Event-Related Optical Signal
- Quasi-Ballistic Photons. (The Tech being used by Facebook's BCI)
- Open Electrical Impedance Tomography
- Optically Pumped Magnetometers (OPM), e.g., QuSpin and Cerca:
- "Optically" stabilizing highly sensitive magnetometers to measure the change in magnetic fields due to neural activity.
- Does not need Helium cooling like conventional (SQUID) MEG, and hence is much smaller and lighter, and somewhat cheaper.
- Diffused Optical Imaging: Used for instance by Mary Lou Jepken et al @ Openwater, aiming to build a portable MRI. More info on the tech:
- SCCN list of eeg/erp data for free public download
- EEG studies with the raw data - (from BigEEG Consortium)
- BNCI Horizon Data Sets
- The Child Mind Institute MIPDB Dataset
- RAM (DARPA) Invasive Recording Dataset from U. Penn
- MindBigData MNIST of Brain Digits
- MindBigData ImageNet of The Brain
- meagmohit's List of EEG Datasets
- OpenNeuro
- PhysioNet
- National Sleep Research Resource: A large collection of sleep data. Supported by the Sleep Research Society (SRS).
- Temple University EEG Corpora: various datasets including health, epilepsy, artifactual, etc.
- EEGEdu: Web-based live Tutorial on EEG and BCI, from basic to advanced. Maintained by the Mathewsons (KyKorKey)
- How to Hack Toy EEGs
- BCI Workshop
- Introduction to Modern BCI
- Brain-Controlled Shark Attack
- Controlling a sphero with a muse
- Building a 20 Euro EEG for your smartphone
- Muse File Reader for OpenVibe
- EEG 101: Interactive tutorial for Android and Muse
- Brainwave analyzer
- BCI Course offered by Columbia University
- BCI Course at Berkeley by Pierre of NeuroTechX
- EEG and MRI Course offered by OHBM
- Prometheus Multimodal BCI (Olympic Torch)
- NeuroTechX Content Lab: Articles, tutorials, and interviews on neurotechnology
- The EEG Newsletter: News, events, and resources in EEG. By Raquel E. London
- Natalie Schaworonkow
- Autodidact
- Strfry
- Fabien Lotte
- Chip Audette EEG Hacker
- Alexandre Barachant
- Pierre Karashchuk
- Jeremy Frey
- Irene Vigué Guix
- Kaggle Grasp and Lift
- Kaggle Error Detection
- Kaggle Decode the Human Brain
- Kaggle Seizure Prediction
- Kaggle Seizure Detection
- BCI Competition
- BR41N.io BCI Competition
- List: Curated list of events (BCI Society)
- BCI Thursdays (BCI Society)
- BCI Meeting (12th International BCI Meeting, June 7-10, 2027, Croatia)
- CNS 2026 Annual Meeting (March 7-10, 2026, Vancouver, Canada)
- FENS Forum 2026 (July 6-10, 2026, Barcelona, Spain)
- 10th Graz Brain-Computer Interface Conference 2026 (September 14-18, 2026)
- NeuroGaming / XTech (Youtube Videos)
- CHI
- BrainTech
- Brain Summit
- NIPS
- SfN 2026 (November 14-18, 2026, Washington, D.C., USA)
- g.tec SpringSchool on BCI
- Non-Invasive Brain-Computer Interfaces: State of the Art and Trends (Edelman et al., 2024): A comprehensive review of the current landscape and future directions of non-invasive BCIs.
- High-performance P300 spellers using GPT-2 word prediction (2024): Research on integrating LLMs to improve the speed and accuracy of BCI communication.
- Multiclass Brain-Computer Interface Classification by Riemannian Geometry
- A New Generation of Brain-Computer Interface Based on Riemannian Geometry
- My Virtual Dream: Collective Neurofeedback in an Immersive Art Environment
- BCI Competition IV – Data Set I: Learning Discriminative Patterns for Self-Paced EEG-Based Motor Imagery Detection
- Single-Trial Analysis and Classification of ERP Components – a Tutorial
- Interpretable Deep Neural Networks for Single-Trial EEG Classification
- Large-Scale Assessment of a Fully Automatic Co-Adaptive Motor Imagery-Based Brain Computer Interface
- Word pair classification during imagined speech using direct brain recording
- Brain-Computer Interfaces Review, Nicolelis & Lebedev. 2017
- High-speed spelling with a noninvasive brain–computer interface
- A high-speed brain-computer interface (BCI) using dry EEG electrodes
- Beyond Boundaries (Nicolellis)
- Rhythms of Brain (Buzsaki)
- Cycles in mind (Cohen)
- Principles of Neural Science (Kandel et al)
- The Future of the Mind (Kaku)
- Brain-Computer Interfacing: An Introduction (Rao)
- Brain Computer Interfaces (Wolpaw)
- Analyzing Neural Time Series Data (Cohen)
- Imaging Brain Function with EEG (Freeman & Quiroga)
- Matlab for Neuroscientists
- Biomedical Optics
- iMotions Top 10 EEG Books
- Signals & Systems MIT Class
- Berkeley DSP class lectures, page
- Signals & Systems (Oppenheim, Willsky, Hamid)
- Discrete-Time Signal Processing (2nd Edition) (Oppenheim, Schafer, Buck)
- Data analysis lecturelets (Mike X Cohen)
- NeuroTech MicroCredentials Course: An accredited series of theoretical and hands-on courses on Neurotechnology, offered by NeuroTechX and Queens University.
- Neuromatch Academy (NMA) 2026 Summer Schools: An online, community-driven set of summer schools in computational sciences and neuroengineering.
- Sinxpress summer schools by Mike X. Cohen
- Brainhack 2026: A community-driven, online, and in-person school for neurotech enthusiasts, happening in many cities around you!
- Recurring summer schools or community-maintained lists of Neurotech-related summer schools
- Neuroscience Duke Course (Coursera)
- Novel Neurotechnologies Intervening in the Brain
- Augment Human Cognition by optimizing cortical oscillations
- Open Neuroscience - a user-driven database of Open Source/Science projects related to Neurosciences
- Awesome-BCI-Reviews - Curated list of Brain-Computer Interface peer-reviewd published reviews and surveys ordered by year of publication.
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