Law & Psychiatry: The New Lie Detectors: Neuroscience, Deception, and the Courts
- 1 April 2007
- journal article
- other
- Published by American Psychiatric Association Publishing in Psychiatric Services
- Vol. 58 (4) , 460-462
Abstract
This column examines the use of two technologies in lie detection. "Brain fingerprinting" is based on the finding that the brain generates a unique brain-wave pattern when a person encounters a familiar stimulus. Use of functional magnetic resonance imaging in lie detection derives from studies suggesting that persons asked to lie show different patterns of brain activity than they do when being truthful. Issues related to the use of such evidence in courts are discussed. The author concludes that neither approach is currently supported by enough data regarding its accuracy in detecting deception to warrant use in court.Keywords
This publication has 8 references indexed in Scilit:
- Detecting Deception Using Functional Magnetic Resonance ImagingBiological Psychiatry, 2005
- Telling truth from lie in individual subjects with fast event‐related fMRIHuman Brain Mapping, 2005
- Premarket Approval Regulation for Lie Detections: An Idea Whose Time May Be ComingThe American Journal of Bioethics, 2005
- Searching the Brain: The Fourth Amendment Implications of Brain-Based Deception Detection DevicesThe American Journal of Bioethics, 2005
- Emerging Neurotechnologies for Lie-Detection: Promises and PerilsThe American Journal of Bioethics, 2005
- Imaging or Imagining? A Neuroethics Challenge Informed by GeneticsThe American Journal of Bioethics, 2005
- A cognitive neurobiological account of deception: evidence from functional neuroimagingPhilosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 2004
- Using Brain MERMER Testing to Detect Knowledge Despite Efforts to ConcealJournal of Forensic Sciences, 2001