Guilty Conscience? Brain Wave Breakthrough May Reveal Crooks
October 10, 2014
NBC News:
A brain wave linked to memory may be a telltale marker for criminal investigators, divulging when a person under scrutiny knows a damning morsel of knowledge — such as the weapon used to commit a murder, according to a new study from Northwestern University.
The findings, posted Tuesday at the Association for Psychological Science website, center on a unique, brain-emitted electrical signal called the P300. Scalp-affixed electrodes show that P300 waves become measurably larger in people as they are asked about then recognize specific items, people or locations that they’ve personally seen or experienced, perhaps offering detectives a next-generation tool for cracking cases, researchers assert.
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