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.

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

Other Words From

• brain fin·ger·print noun

Word History and Origins

Origin of brain fingerprinting¹

First recorded in 1995–2000