Recording the Brain at Work: The Visible, the Readable, and the Invisible in Electroencephalography

@article{citeulike:3013811, abstract = {The electroencephalogram (EEG), the graphic recording of the electric activity of the human brain, kindled far-reaching speculations about the imminent deciphering of mind and brain in the 1930s. Regardless of the thousands of neurons in the human cortex, recording from a person at rest produced a surprisingly regular line oscillating at 10 per second that disappeared at the moment of mental activity. With ever more groups specializing in electroencephalography, however, the deciphering of mind and brain did not materialize but moved further away in the information produced. In the various approaches employed in EEG research, such as the analysis of the graphic code, the search for pathognomic patterns or the imaging of cognitive processing, visualization guided research as well as theorizing, its productivity continued to keep the epistemological question open.}, author = {Borck, Cornelius }, citeulike-article-id = {3013811}, doi = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09647040701348332}, journal = {Journal of the History of the Neurosciences}, keywords = {20th, brain, coding, eeg, electroencephalography, epistemology, graphic, history, information, machine, method, neuroscience, theory, thinking, visual, visualization, waves}, number = {3}, pages = {367--379}, posted-at = {2008-07-17 08:53:41}, priority = {4}, publisher = {Taylor \& Francis}, title = {Recording the Brain at Work: The Visible, the Readable, and the Invisible in Electroencephalography}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09647040701348332}, volume = {17}, year = {2008} }

TY - JOUR ID - citeulike:3013811 L3 - citeulike-article-id:3013811 TI - Recording the Brain at Work: The Visible, the Readable, and the Invisible in Electroencephalography JF - Journal of the History of the Neurosciences VL - 17 IS - 3 SP - 367 EP - 379 PB - Taylor & Francis N2 - The electroencephalogram (EEG), the graphic recording of the electric activity of the human brain, kindled far-reaching speculations about the imminent deciphering of mind and brain in the 1930s. Regardless of the thousands of neurons in the human cortex, recording from a person at rest produced a surprisingly regular line oscillating at 10 per second that disappeared at the moment of mental activity. With ever more groups specializing in electroencephalography, however, the deciphering of mind and brain did not materialize but moved further away in the information produced. In the various approaches employed in EEG research, such as the analysis of the graphic code, the search for pathognomic patterns or the imaging of cognitive processing, visualization guided research as well as theorizing, its productivity continued to keep the epistemological question open. KW - 20th KW - brain KW - coding KW - eeg KW - electroencephalography KW - epistemology KW - graphic KW - history KW - information KW - machine KW - method KW - neuroscience KW - theory KW - thinking KW - visual KW - visualization KW - waves AU - Borck, Cornelius PY - 2008/// UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09647040701348332 ER -