Electroencephalography
noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 The measurement and recording of electrical activity in the brain for diagnostic purposes. countable, uncountable
"Indeed, while many philosophers of language in the 20th century proposed that we think in sentence-like strings of language, use of brain imaging technology like electroencephalography (EEG) and electrocorticography (ECoG) has since revealed that thinking more probably happens in a complex combination of images and associations."
Example
More examples"Indeed, while many philosophers of language in the 20th century proposed that we think in sentence-like strings of language, use of brain imaging technology like electroencephalography (EEG) and electrocorticography (ECoG) has since revealed that thinking more probably happens in a complex combination of images and associations."
Etymology
From electro- + encephalo- + -graphy.
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