TV cops are unlikely to visit their local MR center when extracting confessions from suspected criminals. But the appearance of 3T scanners on programs such as "CSI" could simply be a matter of time, following research demonstrating the accuracy of fMRI-based lie detection.
TV cops are unlikely to visit their local MR center when extracting confessions from suspected criminals. But the appearance of 3T scanners on programs such as "CSI" could simply be a matter of time, following research demonstrating the accuracy of fMRI-based lie detection.
Group-based studies have already shown that telling the truth and lying cause different areas of the brain to light up on fMRI. Now a team from the University of Pennsylvania has shown that this neuropsychological phenomenon can be used to reveal individual liars. Their data analysis has revealed the power of fMRI to identify truthful or false statements correctly almost 90% of the time.
"For fMRI to be used in practice for lie detection, you need to be able to put a subject in a scanner, ask 20 questions, and distinguish between truth and lies without knowing which is which in advance," said Dr. Daniel Langleben, an assistant professor of psychiatry at Penn. "That is what we have done."
Full details of the investigation will be published in Human Brain Mapping and NeuroImage.
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