A method and system for detecting attention of a subject is provided. The method comprises determining one or more user specific feature sets from Electroencephalographic (EEG) signals of the subject； determining one or more pool data feature sets from the EEG signals of the subject； identifying one or more features from each feature set for differentiating attention/non-attention signals； determining respective classification scores for each feature set based on the identified one or more features； and combining the classification scores to obtain a combined attention score for said detecting attention.
