diff --git a/src/modality-specific-files/electroencephalography.md b/src/modality-specific-files/electroencephalography.md
index 8dde061ba7..6ba02cc13a 100644
--- a/src/modality-specific-files/electroencephalography.md
+++ b/src/modality-specific-files/electroencephalography.md
@@ -44,8 +44,8 @@ these RECOMMENDED formats, particularly because there are conversion scripts
 available in most commonly used programming languages to convert data into the
 RECOMMENDED formats.
 
-We encourage users to provide additional meta information extracted from the
-manufacturer specific data files in the sidecar JSON file.
+We encourage users to provide additional metadata extracted from the
+manufacturer-specific data files in the sidecar JSON file.
 
 Note the `RecordingType`, which depends on whether the data stream on disk
 is interrupted or not.
diff --git a/src/modality-specific-files/intracranial-electroencephalography.md b/src/modality-specific-files/intracranial-electroencephalography.md
index 3ad13b31be..ae6a669a84 100644
--- a/src/modality-specific-files/intracranial-electroencephalography.md
+++ b/src/modality-specific-files/intracranial-electroencephalography.md
@@ -53,8 +53,8 @@ packages. Other formats that may be considered in the future should have a clear
 added advantage over the existing formats and should have wide adoption in the
 BIDS community.
 
-We encourage users to provide additional meta information extracted
-from the manufacturer-specific data files in the sidecar JSON file.
+We encourage users to provide additional metadata extracted from the
+manufacturer-specific data files in the sidecar JSON file.
 
 Note the RecordingType, which depends on whether the data stream on disk is interrupted or not.
 Continuous data is by definition 1 segment without interruption.