Detection of deception using fMRI: Better than chance, but well below perfection

Social Neuroscience

Volumn 4, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 528-538

  Monteleone, George T ^a   PhanK L , K Luan ^a   Nusbaum, Howard C ^a   Fitzgerald, Daniel ^a   Irick, John Stockton ^a   Fienberg, Stephen E ^b   Cacioppo, John T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^b CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTISOCIAL BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; BRAIN REGION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HONESTY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; NEUROIMAGING; NORMAL HUMAN; PREDICTION; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

BRAIN; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; HUMANS; LIE DETECTION; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED;

EID: 70349671088     PISSN: 17470919     EISSN: 17470927     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/17470910801903530     Document Type: Article

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