Functional MRI-based lie detection: Scientific and societal challenges

Nature Reviews Neuroscience

Volumn 15, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 123-131

  Farah, Martha J ^a   Hutchinson, J Benjamin ^b   Phelps, Elizabeth A ^c,d   Wagner, Anthony D ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d NATHAN S KLINE INSTITUTE FOR PSYCHIATRIC RESEARCH   (United States)

^e STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLINICAL LABORATORY; ETHICS; FORENSIC MEDICINE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; FUNCTIONAL NEUROIMAGING; HUMAN; LEGAL ASPECT; META ANALYSIS; POLICY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SCIENTIFIC MISCONDUCT; SOCIAL ASPECT;

AGE FACTORS; BRAIN; DECEPTION; HUMANS; LIE DETECTION; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; SCIENCE;

EID: 84892708969     PISSN: 1471003X     EISSN: 14710048     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrn3665     Document Type: Review

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