If brain scans really detected deception, who would volunteer to be scanned?

Journal of Forensic Sciences

Volumn 55, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 1352-1355

  Spence, Sean A ^a   Hope Urwin, Alexandra ^a   Lankappa, Sudheer T ^a   Woodhead, Jean ^a   Burgess, Jenny C L ^a   MacKay, Alice V ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

deception; forensic science; functional magnetic resonance imaging; functional neuroimaging; male prisoners; volunteers

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; DECEPTION; FEMALE; FORENSIC PSYCHIATRY; HUMAN; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHYSIOLOGY; PRISONER; TELEVISION; UNITED KINGDOM; WRITING;

BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; CORRESPONDENCE AS TOPIC; DECEPTION; FEMALE; FORENSIC PSYCHIATRY; GREAT BRITAIN; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; PRISONERS; TELEVISION;

EID: 77956308073     PISSN: 00221198     EISSN: 15564029     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1556-4029.2010.01452.x     Document Type: Article

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