electrocorticography
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
35
Scrabble Score
20
Letters
6
Syllables
12
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A technique that records the brain's electrical activity using electrodes placed directly on the surface of the cerebral cortex during surgery.
Example Sentences
- "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- + corticography.