Original reporting and commentary about polygraphs, voice stress analyzers, and other purported "lie detectors."
Barnaby J. Feder reports for the New York Times about Dr. Lawrence A. Farwell’s brain fingerprinting technique. Excerpt: Since the World Trade Center bombing in 1993, Dr. Lawrence A. Farwell has been arguing that terrorist operations can be investigated through careful monitoring of the brain waves emitted by suspects during interrogation. The claim did not …
Julia Scheeres reports for Wired News. Excerpt: U.S. investigators are facing the daunting task of sorting through more than 700 suspects in connection with the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks. A neuroscientist from Iowa says he’s got the perfect tool to help them do it. Lawrence Farwell says he has devised a test that will ascertain …
John Geralds reports for vnunet.com. Excerpt: Two US research teams developing software that can recognise and analyse facial expressions have caught the attention of the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), as a potential tool to build a better lie detector. Professor Terry Sejnowski, who leads one of the research teams in the Computational Neurobiology Laboratory …
Boston Globe staff writer Patricia Wen reports. Excerpt: Former CIA agent Aldrich Ames easily fooled lie detector tests, concealing his work as a Russian spy. But could he have duped a ”brain fingerprinting” exam, which probes what people know by checking their electrical brain waves? … Iowa-based neuroscientist Lawrence Farwell…is eager to see his ”brain …