{"id":3185,"date":"2001-10-05T15:00:40","date_gmt":"2001-10-05T20:00:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/?p=3185"},"modified":"2021-02-21T05:29:29","modified_gmt":"2021-02-21T10:29:29","slug":"thought-police-peek-into-brains","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/2001\/10\/05\/thought-police-peek-into-brains\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Thought Police Peek Into Brains&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"entry\">\n\n\n<p>Julia Scheeres <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wired.com\/2001\/10\/thought-police-peek-into-brains\/\">reports<\/a> for <em>Wired News.<\/em> Excerpt:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>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&#8217;s got the perfect tool to help them do it.<\/p><p>Lawrence Farwell says he has devised a test that will ascertain whether the suspects have criminal knowledge of the terrorist attack by measuring their brainwaves. He calls it &#8220;brain fingerprinting.&#8221;<\/p><p>It a nutshell, it works like this: A subject&#8217;s head is strapped with electrodes that pick up electrical activity. He sits in front of a computer monitor as words and images flash on the screen. When he recognizes the visual stimuli, a waveform called the P300 reacts and the signal is fed into a computer, where it is analyzed using a proprietary algorithm.<\/p><p>In police cases, a suspect is shown data that only a person with intimate knowledge of the crime would know, such as details about the crime scene or the weapon used. If the suspect&#8217;s P300 waves reacted to the data, it would be an indication of guilt, Farwell said.<\/p><p>For the terrorist investigation, suspects could be shown pictures and terminology known only to members of a terrorist group, such as the word &#8220;al-Qaida&#8221; written in Arabic, or the instrument panel of a 757, he said.<\/p><p>&#8220;There is no question from a scientific perspective that this is an extremely useful tool in the war against terrorism,&#8221; said Farwell, who says he has tested more than 170 people and has a 100 percent accuracy rate in determining a recognition response. &#8220;It&#8217;s extremely important to the national interest to implement this as soon as possible.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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&#8217;s got the perfect tool to help them do it. Lawrence Farwell says he has devised a test that will ascertain &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[334,362,335],"class_list":{"0":"post-3185","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-other","7":"tag-brain-fingerprinting","8":"tag-lawrence-farwell","9":"tag-p300","10":"anons"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3185","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3185"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3185\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3186,"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3185\/revisions\/3186"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3185"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3185"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3185"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}