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Neurol."],"abstract":"<jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Introduction<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>Electroencephalography (EEG) provides an objective means of capturing neural patterns associated with emotion, but substantial inter-subject variability limits the ability of existing models to generalize to unseen subjects.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Methods<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>We propose a robust adversarial domain generalization framework for cross-subject EEG emotion recognition. In the first stage, long short-term memory-based encoders are jointly trained to learn domain-invariant and domain-specific representations using reconstruction, emotion classification, and adversarial domain objectives. This process preserves emotion-relevant information while suppressing subject-specific distribution shifts. In the second stage, the invariant encoder and emotion classifier are further refined through distributionally robust optimization with gradient-guided feature augmentation. Theframework is evaluated on the AMIGOS and DREAMER datasets using leave-one-subject-out cross-validation.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Results<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>The proposed method achieves mean accuracies of 69.94% and 68.97% and F1 scores of 0.59 and 0.65 on AMIGOS and DREAMER, respectively, outperforming the comparison methods on both datasets. 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