brainists

Noun

brainist (plural brainists)

1. Someone who values the brain and its power.
   • We could all make jokes about "brainists": people who see you just for the grey matter.1991, Maximum Rocknroll - Issue 101
2. One who believes cognition and sentience are purely a matter of physical brain functions.
   • Hence for the cognitivist, working memory is linked to encoding and the formation of a new memory, whereas for the brainist it is linked to retrieval and the use of memory.2007, Henry L. Roediger III, Yadin Dudai, Susan M. Fitzpatrick, Science of Memory: Concepts, →ISBN, page 145
3. One who creates music by re-experiencing emotions while attached to an EEG cap.
   • The brainist sat in a comfortable chair at stage center wearing a high-density EEG cap. Right and left of the stage, elevated speakers presented a recorded audience introduction and subject instructions. These included a brief (few word) description of the feeling the brainist had used to described...2011, Sidney D ́Mello, Arthur Graesser, Bjoern Schuller, Affective Computing and Intelligent Interaction, →ISBN

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