Sunday, March 29, 2009

Cognitive Neuroscience Links 03/29/2009

  • You wouldn't know it from the claims of companies like No Lie MRI, but we're a long way off being able to use brain scans to detect reliably whether a person is lying or not. Nonetheless, cognitive psychologists are busy beavering away in the background, testing the ways that brain activity varies when people lie compared with when they tell the truth. One such study has just been published, claiming to be the first to investigate deception in the context of face recognition.

    tags: lie-detection, neuroethics, grue, cogsci


Posted from Diigo. The rest of my favorite links are here.

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