Christie Nicholson on fMRI
Science writer Christie Nicholson has posted her informative article, “Thinking It Over: fMRI and Psychological Science” (Observer, Vol. 19, No. 9 [September 2006]) to her blog.
Category «fMRI»
Symposium Casts Doubt on fMRI “Lie Detection”
Emily Singer reports for the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Technology Review in “Imaging Deception in the Brain” (Wed., 7 Feb. 2007). Excerpt: Polygraph tests are notoriously unreliable, yet thousands of employers, attorneys, and law-enforcement officials use them routinely. Could an alternative system using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), a technology that indirectly measures brain activity, …
No Lie MRI Claims EPPA Exemption!
No Lie MRI, which has begun marketing fMRI-based lie detection services, has suggested to prospective clients that its lie detection tests are not governed by the Employee Polygraph Protection Act (EPPA) of 1988: Corporations U.S. law prohibits truth verification/lie detection testing for employees that is based on measuring the autonomic nervous system (e.g. polygraph testing). …
Brain on Fire: Washington Post Reports on fMRI-based Lie Detection
In a must-read feature article titled “Brain on Fire” (30 October 2006, p. C01), Washington Post staff writer Joel Garreau reports on fMRI-based lie detector testing, including a test that he himself underwent at the University of Pennsylvania’s Brain Behavior Center.
No Lie MRI to Begin Offering “Lie Detection” Services
In “Betrayed By Your Brain?” (9 October 2006) Philadelphia Inquirer staff writer Faye Flam reports on No Lie MRI, a Philadelphia start-up company that will soon offer “lie detection” services to the public: Betrayed by your brain? A Phila. company is poised to offer a lie-detecting MRI, though questions about its reliability remain. By Faye …
Lies Wide Open
On Sunday, 6 August 2006, the San Francisco Chronicle published in its Insight section an article by Vicki Haddock titled, “Lies Wide Open” about fMRI based “lie detection.” Excerpt: Imagine a day when a machine can perform a search and seizure of your mind, pronouncing judgment on whether you are telling the truth — in …
To Catch a Liar
The Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) television program Catalyst examined lie detection in an episode titled, “To Catch a Liar”: How good are you at spotting a lie? We’re lied to up to 100 times a day, yet research shows fewer than one in a 1000 people can reliably detect lies. But science has declared a …
ACLU Seeks Information About Government Use of Brain Scanners in Interrogations
The American Civil Liberties Union today issued the following press release: ACLU Seeks Information About Government Use of Brain Scanners in Interrogations (6/28/2006) FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE CONTACT: media@aclu.org Group Says Technology Should Not Be Deployed Until It Is Proven Effective NEW YORK– In the face of suspicions that the government is using cutting-edge brain-scanning technologies …
NPR: The Future of Lie Detecting
On Monday, 26 June 2006, in a segment titled “The Future of Lie Detecting,” National Public Radio’s Talk of the Nation program addressed fMRI-based lie detectors, which are soon to be marketed by two new start-up companies, No Lie MRI and Cephos Corporation. Guests on the show were University of Pennsylvania psychiatrist and fMRI lie-detection …
MRI tests offer glimpse at brains behind the lies
Richard Wiling of USA Today reported on Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI)-based lie detection in the 27 June edition in an article titled, “MRI tests offer glimpse at brains behind the lies:” Two companies plan to market the first lie-detecting devices that use magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and say the new tests can spot liars …