Insurance “claim fraudsters think too much”. Some great Portsmouth Uni research covered by Irish Independent http://retwt.me/1P8R0
“If You Want to Catch a Liar, Make Him Draw” David DiSalvo @Neuronarrative on more great Portsmouth Uni research http://retwt.me/1P8ZB
fMRI scans of people with schizophrenia show they have same functional anatomical distinction between truth telling & deception as others http://bit.ly/aO5cI2 [...]
Gah, Twitter update widget broken. Here are the deception-relevant tweets from the last few weeks:
Polygraph and similar:
Detecting concealed information w/ reaction times: Validity & comparison w/ polygraph App Cog Psych 24(7) http://is.gd/fhPMW
Important (rare) study on polygraph w/ UK sex offenders: leads to more admissions; case mgrs perceive increased risk http://is.gd/eoW4Q
fMRI and other brain scanning:
If Brain [...]
UPDATE! Request to admit No Lie MRI report in California case is withdrawn Stanford Center for Law & the Biosciences Blog, 25 March 09
So depressing. Here’s the coverage so far:
Stanford Center for Law & the Biosciences Blog, it appears, broke the story (14 Mar)
Brief comments from the Neuroethics and Law Blog (15 Mar)
Detailed report [...]
Part two of the Deception Blog round-up of “all those articles I haven’t had a chance to blog about”. Part one was about catching liars via non-mechanical techniques. This post covers articles and discussion about new technologies to detect deception, including fMRI and measurement of Event-Related Potentials.
fMRI and deception: discussion on the journal [...]
Hat tip to blog.bioethics.net (a great blog associated with the American Journal of Bioethics):
This past week NPR’s Morning Edition carried a three-part series about lie detection reported by Dina Temple-Raston. (The segments are posted as both audio and text, so they’re easy to scan if you can’t listen.) The series covers the questionable accuracy of [...]
Detailed commentary from Patrick Barkham in the Guardian (18 Sept), exploring the use of ‘lie detecting’ machines in the UK. He covers the use of voice stress analysis in benefit offices and insurance companies, and polygraphy for sex offenders. Interesting stuff, and well worth reading in full over on the Guardian site. [...]
ABC News (30 Aug) is the latest media outlet to get on the MRI Lie-Detection bandwagon. “See a Lie Inside the Brain – Researchers Detect the Truth and Find Lies With an FMRI” is their breathless headline. How exciting! But Don Q Blogger points out it’s mostly uncritical puff for commercial companies [...]
Hat tip to Prof Peter Tillers for pointing us to a paper from Charles Keckler, George Mason University School of Law, on admissibility in court of neuroimaging evidence of deception. Here’s the abstract:
The last decade has seen remarkable process in understanding ongoing psychological processes at the neurobiological level, progress that has been driven technologically [...]
Wow. Mind Hacks is right. A great article from the New Yorker on fMRI and deception detection. Here’s a little snippet but as the article is freely available online you should really head on over there and read the whole thing:
To date, there have been only a dozen or so peer-reviewed studies [...]
I’ve been out of the country for the last couple of weeks and missed the start of what looks to be an interesting series from UK’s Channel 4 on lie detection. Luckily the trusty Mind Hacks is on hand to pick it up!
Lie Lab is a three-part TV series where they use the [...]
This is the question asked in the May 2007 issue of The Scientist, which discusses the recent commercialisation of fMRI for lie detection, and concludes with a good summary of the persistent problems using this technology in forensic contexts:
[...] in reality, a nonconsensual testtaker need only move his or her head slightly to render [...]
… asks Ronald Bailey on Reason Online (23 Feb):
[...] Deception arises in our brains. The utility of finding a way to look under the hood directly for the source of deception is undeniable. Not surprisingly, a number of researchers have been trying to find correlates in the brain for truth and lies. [...] Now a [...]
From Science Daily, 19 Feb, a report on the recent symposium Is There Science Underlying Truth Detection? sponsored by the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the McGovern Institute for Brain Research at MIT. It does a good job at summarising some of the practical, legal, ethical and theoretical issues surrounding the use [...]
Press release from the Max Planck Institute (8 Feb):
Our secret intentions remain concealed until we put them into action -so we believe. Now researchers have been able to decode these secret intentions from patterns of their brain activity. They let subjects freely and covertly choose between two possible tasks – to either add or subtract [...]
The latest issue of New Scientist (issue 2590, 10 Feb 07) has an article on how “the apparent emergence of an fMRI truth-telling industry in the US has come as something of a surprise”. Sadly, it’s behind a paywall. It begins:
The trouble began in 2003 when a fire gutted Harvey Nathan’s deli in [...]
If you’re in Cambridge MA next week you might be interested in a symposium on brain imaging and deception detection, to be held at the American Academy of Arts & Science on 2 February, from 2-5pm:
The American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the McGovern Institute for Brain Research at MIT, and Harvard University are holding [...]
Neuroethics and Law Blog (8 Nov) highlights out recent amendments to the No Lie MRI website:
No Lie MRI, which currently offers an fMRI-based “truth verification/lie detection” product [...] recently amended its website to offer its services to: (1) individuals for “risk reduction in dating, trust issues in interpersonal relationships, and issues concerning the underlying topics [...]
In the wake of news that NoLieMRI has started conducting commerical lie tests, the Washington Post (30 October), reports on brain scanning and lie detection. It starts with a detailed description of what it is like to take an MRI lie test:
You’re chambered into this dimly lit tunnel of truth like a shell into [...]
ScienCentral (12 Sept) rehashes earlier coverage (see here and here) to highlight the work of Temple University faculty Scott Faro and Feroze Mohamed : (12 Sept)
[...] rather than focusing on the potential end-result of lying, [Faro and Mohamed] are developing a way to detect deception by looking directly at people’s brain activity using MRI brain [...]
A lengthy piece in last week’s Time Magazine (20 August) rakes over familiar ground:
[...] In the post-9/11 world, where anyone with a boarding pass and a piece of carry-on is a potential menace, the need is greater than ever for law enforcement’s most elusive dream: a simple technique that can expose a liar as dependably [...]
