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- abbreviation
Electrocorticography ;electrocorticogram .
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Examples
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While it's clearly more invasive than using EEG electrodes taped to the head, ECoG is also far easier to use.
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The big advantage of the ECoG recordings is the better signal quality.
Behold! The First Commercially Available Brain To Computer Interface | Impact Lab 2007
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Bioengineers at the university implanted the patients with an electrocorticographic (ECoG) "grid" that collects signals from the surface of the brain.
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The key to all of the new uses for ECoG is software, designed in part by Schalk, that helps scientists decode the electrical signals coming from the brain.
NPR Topics: News 2011
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"This is both very exciting and somewhat frightening at the same time," says Gerwin Schalk, a researcher who studies ECoG at the New York State Department of Health's Wadsworth Center in Albany.
NPR Topics: News 2011
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Doctors have been using ECoG since the 1950s to figure out which area of the brain is causing seizures in people with severe epilepsy.
NPR Topics: News 2011
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ECoG has proven to be ideal for simultaneously detecting the signals from a large number of brain areas.
NPR Topics: News 2011
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Like all volunteers in ECoG experiments so far, this patient has severe epilepsy.
NPR Topics: News 2011
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ECoG could allow someone like that to operate a robotic arm with just their thoughts.
NPR Topics: News 2011
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He took part in the experiment while doctors were using ECoG to find the source of his seizures.
NPR Topics: News 2011
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