Limitations to the detection of deception: True and false recollections are poorly distinguished using an event-related potential procedure

Social Neuroscience

Volumn 4, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 473-490

  Allen, John ^a   Mertens, Ralf ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ADULT; ANTISOCIAL BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FALSE MEMORY; FEMALE; GUILT; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LEARNING; MALE; MEMORY DISORDER; NERVE FUNCTION; NORMAL HUMAN; RECALL; RELIABILITY; TASK PERFORMANCE;

BRAIN; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; DECEPTION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS; FEMALE; HUMANS; LEARNING; LIE DETECTION; MALE; MEMORY; MENTAL RECALL; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 70349846654     PISSN: 17470919     EISSN: 17470927     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/17470910802109939     Document Type: Article

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