A team of world-leading neuroscientists has developed a powerful technique that allows them to look deep inside a person's brain and read their intentions before they act.
Interest in using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) brain-scanning technology as a lie-detector by government agencies and criminal defense lawyers is increasing although there are still many scientific and ethical questions left to be resolved.
Scientists say they have been able to monitor people's thoughts via scans of their brains. Teams at University College London and University of California in LA could tell what images people were looking at or what sounds they were listening to.
It is possible to read someone's mind by remotely measuring their brain activity using functional MRI scanning, researchers have shown. The technique can even extract information from subjects that they are not aware of themselves.
Researchers have developed ever more sensitive ways of peering into the brain to seek out explanations for brain disease. In most cases these technologies are good news for patients, bringing new ways of understanding health and treatment options. However, standards defining ethical ways of moving forward with the new technology are needed in order to prevent abuse
Brain scans show that the brains of people who are lying look very different from those of people who are telling the truth according to new research.
Economists are using brain imaging technology to investigate the interplay of fear, anger, greed and altruism that are activated each time we make an economic decision.
Transcript of a PBS special on the new science and technology of "Brain Fingerprinting", a forensic technique that scans the brain waves of a suspect to see if key pieces of information are in their memory.
"Nueromarketing" researchers are using MRI brain imaging technologies to map how individuals respond to political advertisements.
As neuroscientists hone new technologies for probing our brains, predicting our behavior and perhaps even altering our thoughts, ethicists wrestle with some troubling questions.