Brainwaves a cultural history of electroencephalography

In the history of brain research, the prospect of visualizing brain processes has continually awakened great expectations. In this study, Cornelius Borck focuses on a recording technique developed by the German physiologist Hans Berger to register electric brain currents; a technique that was expect...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Borck, Cornelius, author (author), Hentschel, Ann, translator (translator)
Format: eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, N.Y. : Routledge 2018.
2018.
Edition:1st ed
Series:Science, technology and culture, 1700-1945.
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See on Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull:https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009492653206719
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction - brain waves then and now
  • Electrifying brain images
  • Hans Berger's long path to the EEG
  • Electrotechniques of the live mind
  • Terra nova : contexts of electroencephalographic explorations
  • Set to and survey much!
  • Designing, tinkering, thinking.