Feroze Mohamed
Feroze Mohamed
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The polygraph is the traditional gold standard and has been around for some 30 or 40 years now. But even though it's the best we have today, it's not an accurate method of detecting deception, which is a great danger.
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I think we're probably two to three years away from coming up with a technique where we might be able to put an individual in an MRI scanner and say whether an individual is telling the truth or telling a lie. But I think we have the technology. I cannot say with a 100 percent certainty, but I'm cautiously optimistic.
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With fMRI, there were, consistently, unique areas of the brain -- and more of them -- that were activated during the deceptive process than during truth telling.