electrocorticography

plural electrocorticographies · abbreviation ECoG

1. medicineA technique that records the brain's electrical activity using electrodes placed directly on the surface of the cerebral cortex during surgery.

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   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.

   2019 October 24, Oscar Schwartz, “Mind-reading tech? How private companies could gain access to our brains”, in The Guardian, →ISSN