The hearing provided the most formal legal test yet of whether
fMRI lie detection meets the so - called Daubert standard for admitting evidence in federal court, and as such it could set an important precedent.
And in a pre-trial hearing last week for an employer retaliation case, a judge in New York rejected an attempt to introduce
fMRI lie detection evidence from Cephos, the same Massachusetts - based company involved in the Tennessee case.
Jones expects that the companies offering
fMRI lie detection will likely conduct new tests «to approximate real - life conditions» for lying, and focus on issues such as whether lie detection results vary depending on the age of the subject.
Not exact matches
Steven Laken, the president and CEO of Cephos Corp., the company in Tyngsboro, Massachusetts, that conducted Semrau's tests, said the company would press ahead with efforts to admit
lie detection fMRIs as evidence in court.
A federal court in Tennessee heard arguments yesterday and today on whether
lie detection technology based on
fMRI scans of brain activity should be admitted in a criminal case involving a psychologist accused of defrauding Medicare.
Ironically, a new
fMRI study confirms this, casting further doubt on the reliability of the technique for
lie detection.
So can
fMRI be used reliably for
lie detection?