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A research project, run in the open, that may one day be something more.
Cerebral is a research programme on compact, non-invasive ear-based brain-computer interfaces — EEG and EMG sensing, AI decoding, wearable engineering, and whether any of it survives contact with real life.
01Mission
Find out whether non-invasive neurotechnology can become small, intelligent and practical enough for everyday use — and say so plainly if it cannot.
02Research philosophy
Signal firstAsk what information is physically present before asking what a model can do with it. A great decoder on an empty signal is still nothing.
Miniaturisation has a priceThe question is never whether a device can be built. It is what gets lost on the way down to something wearable, measured rather than assumed.
Usefulness is part of the problemA system nobody will wear has not solved anything. Adoption sits inside the research, not after it.
Separate evidence from ambitionLiterature findings, project results, hypotheses and aspirations are four different things and are labelled as four different things.
Negative results countIf joint EEG-EMG modelling turns out not to help, that is a finding worth publishing, and it changes the roadmap.
03The interdisciplinary chain
Neural engineering leads to AI, which leads to engineering, which leads to adoption, which only then leads to any question about a product. Each link has to be justified by the one before it. Cerebral is deliberately structured so a result at any stage can invalidate the stages after it, rather than being routed around.
IBiosignalsWhat can compact, non-invasive sensors around the ear actually pick up, and how much of it is muscle rather than cortex?Open →IIAI decodingCan signal processing and machine learning recover useful structure from a short, noisy, low-channel recording?Open →IIIEngineeringHow small and unobtrusive can the sensing system get before the performance cost stops being worth it?Open →IVAdoptionAt what point would someone outside a lab trust the thing, wear it daily, and pay for it?Open →
04Who
- Project
- Cerebral
- Author
- Vedant Rastogi
- Phase
- Research phase — Study 01 in research design. No results yet.
- Started
- 2026
05What this site is not
—A product page. There is no product.
—A company site. There is no company.
—A medical resource. Nothing here diagnoses, treats or advises.
—A claim that a prototype exists. None does.