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EEG (countable and uncountable, plural EEGs)

• (medicine, countable) Initialism of electroencephalogram.
  • ✤ Davide Valeriani, senior research officer at University of Essex’s BCI-NE Lab, is using an electroencephalogram (EEG)-based BCI to tap into the unconscious minds of people as they make decisions.
    “Everyone who makes decisions wears the EEG cap, which is part of a BCI, a tool to help measure EEG activity… it measures electrical activity to gather patterns associated with confident or non-confident decisions,” says Valeriani.¹
• (medicine, countable) Initialism of electroencephalograph.
• (medicine) Initialism of electroencephalography.
  • ✤ 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.²

Printed 2026-06-28.

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1. 2018 January 1, Sarah Marsh, “Neurotechnology, Elon Musk and the goal of human enhancement”, in The Guardian ‎${}^{[1]}$, →ISSN: ↩

2. 2019 October 24, Oscar Schwartz, “Mind-reading tech? How private companies could gain access to our brains”, in The Guardian ‎${}^{[2]}$, →ISSN: ↩

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