The present disclosure relates to the field of brainwave technology, and provides a detection device and a detection method. The detection device includes: a brainwave acquisition circuit configured to collect a brainwave signal of a user in the case that a distance between the user and a to-be-detected object is smaller than a threshold; and a processing circuit configured to process the collected brainwave signal to acquire brainwave information, and acquire a detection result of the to-be-detected object in accordance with the brainwave information. The brainwave information includes at least one of olfactory information and gustatory information of the user.