brain fingerprinting

[ breyn-fing-ger-prin-ting ]

noun
  1. a technology for determining whether specific knowledge or information is stored in a person's brain, by showing the person certain words or pictures and measuring brain-wave response: Brain fingerprinting proved that the suspect recognized the murder victim.

Origin of brain fingerprinting

1
First recorded in 1995–2000

Other words from brain fingerprinting

  • brain fin·ger·print, noun

Words Nearby brain fingerprinting

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British Dictionary definitions for brain fingerprinting

brain fingerprinting

noun
  1. a technique in which sensors worn on the head are used to measure the involuntary brain activity of someone in response to certain images or pieces of evidence pertaining to a crime

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