How to Use brain wave in a Sentence
brain wave
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Smiling proved even more powerful in aligning brain waves.
—Quanta Magazine, 28 Mar. 2024
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Different types of brain waves have different paces, or frequencies.
—Emily Mullin, WIRED, 6 Mar. 2024
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The brain waves that are recorded on the golden record are a brain in love.
—Meghan Bartels, Scientific American, 7 July 2023
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When the team looked at an octopus’s brain waves for the first time, the results were shocking.
—Kenna Hughes-Castleberry, Ars Technica, 8 Apr. 2023
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When a baby and an adult make eye contact, their brain waves fall in sync, too, a new study finds.
—Laura Sanders, Washington Post, 10 Dec. 2017
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Meanwhile, a cap of sensors on their head measured their brain waves.
—Aria Bendix, NBC News, 27 Jan. 2024
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Then, the researchers trained an AI to study the brain wave patterns and deduce what words the patients were listening to.
—Avery Thompson, Popular Mechanics, 30 Jan. 2019
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From no brain waves to now walking and talking and reading, doing math.
—Caitlin O'Kane, CBS News, 6 May 2018
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The sound of the ocean or a river has been proven to change our brain waves’ frequency and put us in a more meditative state.
—Camille Styles, Sunset Magazine, 3 Feb. 2023
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In the 1980s, Benjamin Libet wired people up to a system that recorded their brain waves.
—Daniel Glaser, A-LIST, 1 July 2018
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Once Gluck chooses the brain waves Perez should try to alter, Perez concentrates on the visual task at hand.
—Hannah Furfaro, Slate Magazine, 10 Oct. 2017
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Next comes REM sleep, characterized by quick brain waves and dreams.
—Bridget Alex, Discover Magazine, 1 Jan. 2019
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Meanwhile, brain waves, heart rate, and blood pressure all become similar to the levels seen in the awake state.
—Elizabeth Rayne, Ars Technica, 9 May 2023
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But brain waves measure only the electrical fields on the brain’s surface.
—Burkhard Bilger, The New Yorker, 27 Mar. 2023
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Why would someone want their brain waves collected by their car?
—Brett Berk, Car and Driver, 17 Jan. 2018
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The life of a child who has heart, fingerprints, and brain waves but has not yet attained her 22nd week of life could still be ended for any reason.
—Krista Kafer, The Denver Post, 18 Oct. 2019
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This also serves to keep the person’s head fairly still so that the system can more easily read brain waves.
—Larry Greenemeier, Scientific American, 21 Aug. 2014
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Wisps of long gray hair poke out from under the EEG cap that is measuring Peter’s every brain wave.
—IEEE Spectrum, 11 July 2023
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A few years later, studies hinted that a band of 8- to 13-hertz brain waves called the mu rhythm may be abnormal in some people with autism.
—Hannah Furfaro, Slate Magazine, 10 Oct. 2017
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Here's what's truly mind-blowing: Patients use their brain waves to control them.
—Emiko Jozuka, CNN, 18 Sep. 2019
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The electrodes recorded brain waves non-invasively from the scalp.
—IEEE Spectrum, 26 July 2019
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In its earliest renditions, the EEG used crude ink to scrawl a patient’s brain waves on paper tape.
—Lucy Tu, Smithsonian Magazine, 24 Mar. 2023
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The headband emits a tone that the company says improves slow wave sleep, the stage in the sleep cycle at which brain waves and breathing slow to their lowest levels.
—Lisa Eadicicco, Time, 13 Jan. 2018
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The aging brain just doesn’t seem to be able to synchronize its brain waves effectively.
—Chris Morris, Fortune, 18 Dec. 2017
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Bartschi’s music delightfully hints at a bygone era and is full of motion, like the whirring of focused brain waves.
—Matthew J. Palm, OrlandoSentinel.com, 9 June 2018
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Scientists used to have to place electrodes directly on the periosteum—the inner layer of the scalp—to pick up brain waves.
—Time, 26 June 2023
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The synchronous brain waves are then an expression of the empathy.
—Diana Gitig, Ars Technica, 4 Mar. 2018
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The brain wave amplifier gave way to other high-tech gadgetry.
—New York Times, 1 Dec. 2021
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The band measures electronic brain waves and translates them to a measure of alertness or fatigue.
—New York Times, 11 Feb. 2020
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And the better the listener understood, the more closely the brain wave patterns mirrored those of the storyteller.
—Susanna Schrobsdorff, Time, 7 Oct. 2021
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