electroencephalography

See also: electro-encephalography

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From electro- +‎ encephalo- +‎ -graphy.

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  • Rhymes: -ɒɡɹəfi

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electroencephalography (countable and uncountable, plural electroencephalographies)

  1. (neurology) The measurement and recording of electrical activity in the brain for diagnostic purposes.
    • 2019 October 24, Oscar Schwartz, “Mind-reading tech? How private companies could gain access to our brains”, in The Guardian‎[1], →ISSN:
      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.

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