Maybe you saw that piece in the New York Times this past weekend about using fMRI to gain insight into the minds of swing voters. (Mitt Romney stimulates amygdalas!) And maybe, after reading that piece, you were thinking, "Really?" Well, you're not alone. Over at Adam Kolber's great Neuroethics and... (read the rest)
posted November 12, 2007
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 polygraphs, the emerging field of lie detection by... (read the rest)
posted November 4, 2007
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