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  • 10.10.07

    fMRI - Neuroscience Go-To Technology

    Can Detailed Brain Images Really Show Us When We’re Lying? Functional magnetic resonance imaging—fMRI—was all but unknown a decade ago. Today it’s the go-to technology for neuroscience, allowing phenomenally detailed images of the

  • 9.21.07

    Lie Detectors and Civil Liberties

    Paul Root Wolpe on Bioethics What if the fMRI worked perfectly as a lie detector? Wouldn't that be a great thing for courts and cops? What downside could there be to knowing whenever someone isn't telling the truth? Plenty, says Paul Root Wolpe, a profes

  • 9.21.07

    Lie Detectors

    Can Brain Scans Keep Us Honest? The polygraph machine is still our best tool to tell when someone is lying - but it's based on technology that has barely changed since the 1930s. Now, there may be a better way to separate truth from fiction: a brain scan