electrocorticography

[ih-lek-troh-kawr-ti-kog-ruh-fee]

noun

Medicine/Medical.

1. a technique for surveying the electrical activity of the cerebral cortex by means of an electroencephalograph and electrodes attached to the brain.

Word History and Origins

Origin of electrocorticography¹

electro- + cortico- + -graphy

Example Sentences

Six theory-neutral labs would scan the brains of 250 total participants using three techniques: functional magnetic resonance imaging, magnetoencephalography, and electrocorticography, in which electrodes are placed on the brain’s surface prior to a surgery.

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This July, researchers at the University of California funded by the social network showed decoding of a small set of full, spoken words and phrases from brain activity in real time for the first time – though it was done with so-called electrocorticography electrodes laid on the surface of the brain via surgery.

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Facebook’s approach relies on high-density electrocorticography, aka ECoG, which implants sensors on the brain and uses them to record brain activity.

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Intracortical microelectrode arrays, for example, have generally led to higher performance than electrocorticography in other areas of BCI research3,7.

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The authors used a technique called high-density electrocorticography to track the activity of areas of the brain that control speech and articulator movement as the volunteers spoke several hundred sentences.

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