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Intentional recall
“I know it. What was it?”
THE QUESTION
Can we decode enough information from brain activity during intentional recall to identify what a person is trying to remember?
Cue is not about reading arbitrary thoughts. We are exploring a specific moment: when you deliberately try to remember something, parts of the memory may reactivate, but conscious retrieval fails.
THE HYPOTHESIS
From intention to retrieval.
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Neural signal
Partial memory reactivation
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Representation
Decode useful semantic structure
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Retrieval
“Is this what you meant?”
WHY NOW
Neural decoding is moving from reconstruction toward representation.
Research increasingly shows that patterns of brain activity can be mapped into representations used by modern AI systems, including work on semantic decoding and retrieval from fMRI and EEG.
Much of that work begins with something a person is currently seeing, hearing, or experiencing. Cue asks what happens when the signal comes from intentional memory recall.
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Human-first
Start with how people naturally try to remember.
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Neuroscience-driven
Ground the work in cognitive neuroscience and rigorous methods.
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Privacy by design
Brain data is deeply personal. Privacy must be foundational.
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Open collaboration
Pressure-test the hypothesis with researchers across disciplines.
THINKING ABOUT THIS TOO?
Help us pressure-test the question.
We're looking to talk with neuroscientists, memory researchers, BCI researchers, ML researchers, and neurotechnology builders working on adjacent problems.