Jan 24, 2010
Mind Reading, Brain Fingerprinting and the Law
Brain fingerprinting purportedly tests for ‘guilty knowledge,’ or memory of a kind that only a guilty person could have. Other forms of guilt detection, using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), are based on the assumption that lying and truth-telling are associated with distinctive activity in different areas of the brain. These and other potential forms of ‘mind reading’ are still in development but may have far-reaching implications for court cases.
via sciencedaily.com
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