Functional brain imaging for detecting and assessing deception and concealed recognition, and cognitive/emotional response to information

Abstract From the Canadian patent

This invention provides method and system for measuring changes in the brain activity of an individual by functional brain imaging methods for investigative purposes, e.g. detecting and assessing whether an individual is being truthful or deceptive, and/or whether an individual has a prior knowledge of a certain face or object. The invention combines recent progress in medical brain imaging, computing and neuroscience to produce an accurate and objective method of detection of deception and concealed prior knowledge based on an automated analysis of the direct measurements of brain activity. Applying the paradigm developed from the deception model and applying it to , an individual …