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 Request to admit No Lie MRI report in California case is withdrawn Stanford Center for Law & the Biosciences Blog, 25 March 09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 from Wired Science in MRI Lie Detection to Get First Day in Court (16 Mar)
- Karen Franklin’s In the News Blog offers further thoughts and links to previous posts on the limitations of fMRI for lie detection (16 Mar)
Related links:
- The company offering this service is No Lie MRI.
- More from the Deception Blog on fMRI and lie detection including links to relevant academic research
- Is the MRI lie detector test reliable? ScienceLine reports (3 November 2008)
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A lot has occurred in legal decisions since this article was posted March 2009. Regardless of current legal acceptability of fMRI data in the courts, the use of neuroimaging techniques for investigation is certain to grow. Cognitive Engineering, LLC (www.Cognitive-Eng.org), in addition to Cephos Corp. and NoLieMRI, uses MRI for truth / deception. CogEng differs in its approach by also applying neuroimaging for face recognition, validating cognitive impairment, demonstrating the sensation of pain, and searching for signals of intent. Neuroimaging technology is very robust, and its use outside of the courts will continue to grow.
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