Researchers equipped with fMRI machines have shown that they can link specific brainwave functions to specific objects, ideas or emotions. What they see as innovation, I see as the goddamn thought police running amuck in 30 years. More »
Seriously, you’re not the master multitasker you might imagine. No matter how smart you think you are, your brain is not built for doing lots of things at the same time. More »
Lie and your brain will send more blood to the ventrolateral area of your prefrontal cortex. fMRI scans can tell when this happens by measuring blood-oxygen levels in the brain. Soon such brain-scanning lie detectors may be used in courts. More »
I know it’s science, which is ostensibly more objective than human intuition, but there’s something unnerving about an MRI brain scan being admitted as evidence in a murder trial in Chicago, the first in the US. More »
