Prospects of functional magnetic resonance imaging as lie detector

Frontiers in Human Neuroscience

Volumn , Issue SEP, 2013, Pages

  Rusconi, Elena ^a,b   Mitchener Nissen, Timothy ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PARMA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Evidence; fMRI; Human rights; Lie detection; Scientific validity

Indexed keywords

BLOOD OXYGENATION; BOLD SIGNAL; BRAIN REGION; COGNITION; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY SCANNER; COURT; CRIMINAL JUSTICE; DECEPTION; FORENSIC MEDICINE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; LEGAL ASPECT; MENTAL PERFORMANCE; NEUROIMAGING; NEUROSCIENCE; PEER REVIEW; REVIEW; TASK PERFORMANCE;

EID: 84884686121     PISSN: 16625161     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fnhum.2013.00594     Document Type: Review

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