ABSTRACT
Berger must be considered one of the pioneers of the nascent discipline of psychophysiology, and he is credited with coining the term. Although he did observe EEG phenomenology in epilepsy, he was not oriented toward the medical utilization of the EEG. For decades, as a matter of fact, the principal utility of the EEG in neurology remained with those features that were obvious on mere visual inspection of the clinical EEG. is had the eect of consolidating a rather modest appraisal of the utility of the EEG, one that would prove dicult to dislodge. e usefulness of the EEG in psychophysiology remained modest as well. e full exploitation of the EEG would have to await the availability of new tools of both measurement and of analysis.
