Neuroscience
An article by AP/Yahoo examines a few of the issues involved in using fMRI for lie detection not often addressed.
"What's really scary is if we start implementing this before we know how accurate it really is," Greely said.
No Lie MRI Inc. will provide neuroimaging lie detection in Philadelphia starting in July, but it seems premature when so many questions about its applications and effectiveness remain.
What are the implications of false memories? Implanted memories? Lost memories? Functional and structural differences in pathological liars? Drugs that affect the memory? Aging deficits and neurodegenerative diseases?
In the US judges cautioned against the use of fMRIs on the grounds that they may be more effective than juries and usurp their role. Before the legal system embraces such a grand promise of technology, perhaps it should dig deeper for the truth.
- Drawing Out The Truth
Forget expensive fMRI-based lie detection or iffy polygraph tests, give your suspect a pencil and paper and get them to draw what happened - a new study suggests their artistic efforts will betray whether they are telling the truth or not. Aldert Vrij's...
- Fresh Doubt Cast On Memories Of Abuse Recovered In Therapy
Memories of child abuse, long buried, but suddenly recovered in therapy, have been a source of controversy for some time now. The fear is that such memories are false; that they are the product of suggestion, hypnosis, visualisation or other therapeutic...
- Would I Lie To You?
An engaging series of articles on the ethics of neuro-deception-detection appeared in the American Journal of Bioethics last year. The lead article, by Wolpe et al., argued that, "Premature commercialization will bias and stifle the extensive basic research...
- Neuropsychology Abstract Of The Day: Olfactory Functioning And Mild Cognitive Impairment (mci)
Djordjevic J, Jones-Gotman M, De Sousa K, & Chertkow H. (2007). Olfaction in patients with mild cognitive impairment and Alzheimer's disease. Neurobiology and Aging [epub ahead of print.] Montreal Neurological Institute, 3801 University Street, Department...
- Truth-telling And The Brain
Can brain-imaging technologies show whether we are being truthful or not? A current study, reported by Reuters (as found on the Houston Chronicle website), takes a look:Brain scans can tell who's lying, who's not Reuters News Service Nov. 29,...
Neuroscience
Deception detection
An article by AP/Yahoo examines a few of the issues involved in using fMRI for lie detection not often addressed.
"What's really scary is if we start implementing this before we know how accurate it really is," Greely said.
No Lie MRI Inc. will provide neuroimaging lie detection in Philadelphia starting in July, but it seems premature when so many questions about its applications and effectiveness remain.
What are the implications of false memories? Implanted memories? Lost memories? Functional and structural differences in pathological liars? Drugs that affect the memory? Aging deficits and neurodegenerative diseases?
In the US judges cautioned against the use of fMRIs on the grounds that they may be more effective than juries and usurp their role. Before the legal system embraces such a grand promise of technology, perhaps it should dig deeper for the truth.
- Drawing Out The Truth
Forget expensive fMRI-based lie detection or iffy polygraph tests, give your suspect a pencil and paper and get them to draw what happened - a new study suggests their artistic efforts will betray whether they are telling the truth or not. Aldert Vrij's...
- Fresh Doubt Cast On Memories Of Abuse Recovered In Therapy
Memories of child abuse, long buried, but suddenly recovered in therapy, have been a source of controversy for some time now. The fear is that such memories are false; that they are the product of suggestion, hypnosis, visualisation or other therapeutic...
- Would I Lie To You?
An engaging series of articles on the ethics of neuro-deception-detection appeared in the American Journal of Bioethics last year. The lead article, by Wolpe et al., argued that, "Premature commercialization will bias and stifle the extensive basic research...
- Neuropsychology Abstract Of The Day: Olfactory Functioning And Mild Cognitive Impairment (mci)
Djordjevic J, Jones-Gotman M, De Sousa K, & Chertkow H. (2007). Olfaction in patients with mild cognitive impairment and Alzheimer's disease. Neurobiology and Aging [epub ahead of print.] Montreal Neurological Institute, 3801 University Street, Department...
- Truth-telling And The Brain
Can brain-imaging technologies show whether we are being truthful or not? A current study, reported by Reuters (as found on the Houston Chronicle website), takes a look:Brain scans can tell who's lying, who's not Reuters News Service Nov. 29,...