You Like Brains?
NO SILLY!
I meant to ask do you like brains…like Neuroscience stuff.
There we go, MUCH BETTER!
Well if you DO we have something for you.
“Intersecting Complexity: Neuroscience Lie Detection and the Legal Admissibility
Matrix” by Professor Jane Campbell Moriarty, Thursday, October 27 at 5:30pm in
FPH, Main Lecture Hall.
The lecture will be held THIS THURSDAY (October 27th in the FPH main Lecture Hall at 5:30) on the complexities on bringing ‘lie detection’ technology into the courtroom. Thats probably a pretty crude way of putting it but hey, I’m doing what I can.
Here is the Abstract for the event.
Neuroscientists have made substantial progress in the last decade using
neuroimaging in controlled laboratory studies to distinguish between
truth-telling and deception. fMRI technology integrates physics, engineering,
chemistry, biology, physiology, and statistical analysis to measure changes in
brain activity. When synchronized with an appropriate behavioral paradigm, fMRI
can discriminate between lies and truth in individual subjects with an accuracy
rate of greater than 75%. While most neuroscientists believe that fMRI lie
detection is not courtroom-ready, commercial entities are attempting to
introduce tests results in trials. Proper legal analysis of the admissibility
of scientific evidence balances many factors, including constitutionality,
reliability, the role and limitations of juries, and social policy. The point
where these two complex systems of science and law intersect is the courtroom.
This presentation asks whether the science is good enough for the courtroom and
whether the courtroom is capable of managing the science. Creating an
“admissibility matrix,” the lecturer attempts to deconstruct and explain the
complexities of both science and law to determine if there is a future for
neuroscience lie detection in court.
Zoinks. That sounds so damn cool. Moral issues? Neuroscience? Justice System? Sounds pretty Hampshire to me.
Once again this event will be in the FPH Main Lecture Hall October 27th at 5:30 PM.
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