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Mind-Reading Machine Puts Woman in Jail for Murder

2215248753_24ae663c07.jpgWill a new brain scan test put an end to lying in court? A judge in India recently used a brain scan to convict a 24-year-old woman of murdering her fiancé.

In a new and controversial way of gathering incriminating evidence, the defendant was read details of her fiancé’s death while electrodes were hooked up to her head to measure her brain waves. Afterwards, the authorities used processing software to analyze the brain scans, revealing that the woman’s brain lit up when she heard information that only the killer would know.

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September 24th, 2008 Tags: ,
by Boonsri Dickinson in What’s Inside Your Brain? | 1 comments | RSS feed | Trackback >