A new study presented yesterday at the Radiological Society of North America yesterday showed differences in brain patterns when people are lying vs. when they’re telling the truth. It’s a small study (just 9 subjects) and it’s not clear that fMRI would be any more reliable than a polygraph, but it’s an indication of what’s down the road…<\/p>\n
Changes were detected in the frontal, temporal and limbic lobes \u2014 it’s not clear to me how many of those changes might be detectable by the near-infrared spectral imaging I blogged<\/a> about earlier, but if possible that might address some of the cost issues associated with fMRI…<\/p>\n Press release<\/a>, Reuters story<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" A new study presented yesterday at the Radiological Society of North America yesterday showed differences in brain patterns when people are lying vs. when they’re telling the truth. 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