The idea behind it, developing an ability to "see" electrical patterns, was an old one.

Researchers collected electrical patterns from the monkey's brain as it performed the tasks.

Fortunately, tiny electrical patterns in the brain set up to handle our specific memories are unique to each individual.

Every so often the electrical patterns of the Vulcan's mind pushed themselves toward normal, but they always retreated again.

They turn electricity into electrical patterns, or signals, that repeat over and over.

That's a matrix too, an electrical pattern holding you in crosswise bands.

Because I wanted to test the effect of artificial electrical patterns on biochemical interaction.

"Today," said the voice from the ceiling, "we test the electrical patterns of your brain."

A computer records your brain's electrical patterns as wavy lines.

So a creature which was merely an electrical pattern was not incredible.