cortical potential

Questions about cortical potential

What does cortical potential mean?

cortical potential means "(neurophysiology) rapid fluctuations of voltage between parts of the cerebral cortex that are detectable with an electroencephalograph".

What is another word for cortical potential?

Close synonyms include brainwave, brain wave. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is cortical potential a common word?

cortical potential is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.