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How to Commit the Perfect Murder

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Neuroscience and Cognitive Science in the Courtroom

There's some controversial stuff happening in neuroscience, or neuro law. Often that was pushed back because it's often used for things like lie detection. Is that the equivalent of a polygraph, which you said earlier, does not work at all? It's not the thing that's on television, but it's just non- But if you scan my brain, can you tell if I'm lying? No. Well, it depends. So I might be able to see that you're creating something, that you're fabricating something,. That your brain is thinking of something new, as opposed to something old.

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