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neuroimaging

neuroimaging

English

Noun

neuroimaging (uncountable)

  1. (neurology) The generation of images showing brain activity (or activity in other parts of the nervous system). [from 20th c.]
    • 2011, Steven Pinker, The Better Angels of Our Nature, Penguin 2012, p. 722:
      Adrian Raine [...] recently carried out a neuroimaging experiment that supports the idea that violence arises from an imbalance between impulses from the limbic system and self-control from the frontal lobes.

Etymology 2

From neuroimage + -ing.

Verb

neuroimaging

  1. present participle of neuroimage