{"id":3334,"date":"2001-12-09T15:00:01","date_gmt":"2001-12-09T20:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/?p=3334"},"modified":"2021-02-21T16:01:32","modified_gmt":"2021-02-21T21:01:32","slug":"the-lie-detector-that-scans-your-brain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/2001\/12\/09\/the-lie-detector-that-scans-your-brain\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;The Lie Detector That Scans Your Brain&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"entry\">\n\n\n<p>Clive Thompson <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2001\/12\/09\/magazine\/the-year-in-ideas-a-to-z-the-lie-detector-that-scans-your-brain.html\">reports<\/a> on Dr. Lawrence A. Farwell&#8217;s brain fingerprinting technique in this <em>New York Times<\/em> magazine article. Excerpt:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>The police have tried for years to get into the heads of criminals. But the accuracy of polygraphs, which measure pulse rates and blood pressure, has frequently been questioned &#8212; since steely-nerved liars can quell these physiological cues. Now a new technique called &#8220;brain mapping&#8221; promises to add a new (if creepy) weapon to crime fighting: a device that can scan the brain of suspects and hunt for incriminating thoughts.<\/p><p>The idea of monitoring brain waves isn&#8217;t new. Scientists have long known that certain recognizable waves occur when people are surprised, pleased or frightened. But recently the technique has become much more precise. At Brain Fingerprinting Laboratories, a company in Fairfield, Iowa, the chief scientist, Lawrence Farwell, interrogates suspects by checking their EEG&#8217;s for &#8220;P300 waves.&#8221; These waves are produced when the brain encounters words or images that it recognizes; thus the police, Farwell claims, can present a suspect with information that only a criminal would know and see if the brain recognizes it.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Clive Thompson reports on Dr. Lawrence A. Farwell&#8217;s brain fingerprinting technique in this New York Times magazine article. Excerpt: The police have tried for years to get into the heads of criminals. But the accuracy of polygraphs, which measure pulse rates and blood pressure, has frequently been questioned &#8212; since steely-nerved liars can quell these &#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],"class_list":{"0":"post-3334","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-other","7":"tag-brain-fingerprinting","8":"tag-lawrence-farwell","9":"anons"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3334","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=3334"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3334\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3336,"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3334\/revisions\/3336"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3334"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3334"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3334"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}