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Some companies already sell brain monitoring systems made of electrodes that measure external brain waves with a method called electroencephalography.

NeuroRex uses a wearable electrode cap that reads a person’s brain waves and turns them into commands like “Walk forward,” “Turn,” “Step back,” or “Stop.”

In one study, alpha binaural beats, or ones with a pulsing beat similar to that of “alpha” brain waves that are associated with a calm and relaxed state, helped some subjects do better in a creative task.

Besides, it was hard to understand what the brain waves really meant in terms of what the neurons in the brain were doing.

With a cap full of EEG electrodes over their heads, they would proceed to have their brain waves recorded.

Casey Schwartz on the "alpha" brain wave wreaking havoc on your sleep.

Which must have been entirely brain-wave or thought-reading, as Rosalind had said never a word of her anxiety, so far.

Finally as the result of a brain-wave he had requisitioned the local boy scouts.

He just loosed another dry Martini into the undergrowth, and before you could turn round it had flushed quite a brain-wave.

That vision had been a brain-wave between their two linked and sympathetic brains.

It smelled the outpouring of certain glands, tasted a deviant brain wave.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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