Pith Number

pith:2P77Y643

pith:2026:2P77Y643GQIWNRHDORWCKRQBVE

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Retrieval-Based Brain Decoding by Alignment, not Complexity

Matteo Ciferri, Matteo Ferrante, Nicola Toschi

arxiv:2606.19081 v1 · 2026-06-17 · q-bio.NC · cs.HC

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{2P77Y643GQIWNRHDORWCKRQBVE}

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2 Internet Archive

3 Author claim open · sign in to claim

4 Citations open

5 Replications open

✓ Portable graph bundle live · download bundle · merged state

The bundle contains the canonical record plus signed events. A mirror can host it anywhere and recompute the same current state with the deterministic merge algorithm.

Receipt and verification

First computed	2026-06-19T16:11:56.086684Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

d3fffc7b9b341166c4e3746c254601a910d69d7931d85b77bf06a02c6d856e40

Aliases

arxiv: 2606.19081 · arxiv_version: 2606.19081v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2606.19081 · pith_short_12: 2P77Y643GQIW · pith_short_16: 2P77Y643GQIWNRHD · pith_short_8: 2P77Y643

Agent API

Resolver JSON Graph JSON Events JSON Schema Signing key

Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/2P77Y643GQIWNRHDORWCKRQBVE \
  | jq -c '.canonical_record' \
  | python3 -c "import sys,json,hashlib; b=json.dumps(json.loads(sys.stdin.read()), sort_keys=True, separators=(',',':'), ensure_ascii=False).encode(); print(hashlib.sha256(b).hexdigest())"
# expect: d3fffc7b9b341166c4e3746c254601a910d69d7931d85b77bf06a02c6d856e40

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "2be70fdfc5d6f47aee24c0a0cab4f54c7208f280dccc1f1a78fdd95d4f8dceff",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.HC"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "q-bio.NC",
    "submitted_at": "2026-06-17T13:52:38Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "d52bd60d942f4cf8e9d41e23808a035a9e24ee7a647c684638797f9248570f90"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2606.19081",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}