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Have Indian investigators been duped into using highly suspect brain-mapping technology?
I was intrigued by this snippet in a article about the recent bomb blasts in India.
"Haywood, who underwent lie detector and brain mapping tests, fled from..."
Article: http://www.rediff.com/news/2008/aug/18ahd3.htm
Brain mapping? I'd never heard of fMRI or PET scans being approved for forensics, so digging further I was rather shocked to see that they have been in use in India for a while.
Article: http://www.rediff.com/news/2006/jul/19george.htm
Brain mapping or brain finger-printing is being peddled by http://brainwavescience.com/ (Their website's definitely worth browsing)
A search on scholar.google.com turned up this review article, which describes most of the grandiose claims made about the technology as "florid" and highly exaggerated.
PDF: http://cns.bu.edu/~gsc/Articles/Brain_FingerPrinting.pdf
Having failed to get the technology employed in the US, this company seems to be targeting other countries. Good strategy, even if ethically suspect and porous!
- ChaitanyaSai 18y agoThe links seem to show up as text above: I was intrigued by this snippet in a article about the recent bomb blasts in India. "Haywood, who underwent lie detector and brain mapping tests, fled from..." Article: http://www.rediff.com/news/2008/aug/18ahd3.htm http://www.rediff.com/news/2008/aug/18ahd3.htm Brain mapping? I'd never heard of fMRI or PET scans being approved for forensics, so digging further I was rather shocked to see that they have been in use in India for a while. Article: http://www.rediff.com/news/2006/jul/19george.htm http://www.rediff.com/news/2006/jul/19george.htm Brain mapping or brain finger-printing is being peddled by http://brainwavescience.com/ http://brainwavescience.com/ (Their website's definitely worth browsing) A search on scholar.google.com turned up this review article, which describes most of the grandiose claims made about the technology as "florid" and highly exaggerated. PDF: http://cns.bu.edu/~gsc/Articles/Brain_FingerPrinting.pdf http://cns.bu.edu/~gsc/Articles/Brain_FingerPrinting.pdf Having failed to get the technology employed in the US, this company seems to be targeting other countries. Good strategy, even if ethically suspect and porous!