Original reporting and commentary about polygraphs, voice stress analyzers, and other purported "lie detectors."
Alexis Madrigal writes for Wired.com about what is reportedly the first attempt to have fMRI lie detector results admitted in court: Defense attorneys are for the first time submitting a controversial next-generation lie-detection test as evidence in criminal court. In an upcoming juvenile-sex-abuse case in San Diego, the defense is hoping to get an fMRI …
Chris Summers of BBC News reports. Excerpt: As the British government unveils plans to make lie detector tests mandatory for convicted paedophiles, some scientists in the US are working on more advanced technology which might be better equipped at detecting deception. Imagine the Pentagon equipped with a machine which can read minds. Sound like the …
Washington Post correspondent Shankar Vedantam reports in this page A02 article. Excerpt: Telling a lie produces telltale changes in the brain, researchers announced yesterday at a neuroscience conference in San Diego. Brain scans of volunteers asked to tell lies showed changes as the subjects tried to suppress what they knew was true. The result might …
Sharon Berry reports in the October issue of SIGNAL magazine on a new technology which which Dr. John D. Norseen of Lockeed Martin Aeronautics Co. says may be able to determine if a person is lying. Excerpt: Whether a threat comes from pilot error or enemy aggression, scientists are finding that multisensor mapping and analysis …