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Who's The Liar? Brain MRI Stands Up to Polygraph Test

by Dr. A on Tue 31 Jan 2006 06:31 AM CST | Permanent Link | Cosmos

Traditional polygraph tests to determine whether someone is lying may take a back seat to functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), according to a study appearing in the February issue of Radiology. Researchers from Temple University Hospital in Philadelphia used fMRI to show how specific areas of the brain light up when a person tells a lie. [read the article]

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31 January 2006

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