Friday, August 13, 2010
Mind-reading tech predicts terrorist's intentions
A simple slide show could be the next weapon against terrorists. Using a brain-electrode cap and imagery, scientists at Northwestern University can pick the date, location and means of a future terrorist attack from the minds of America's enemies.
The new research could not only stop terrorist attacks before they happen, but could also be used to help prevent other capers, or convict criminals after they break the law.
"We presented [the mock terrorists] with stimuli that are rational choices of what they might do, said J. Peter Rosenfeld, a scientist at Northwestern University and coauthor of a new study in the journal Psychophysiology.
"They sit in a chair, we put brain wave recording electrodes on their scalp and they look at the screen."
The electrodes measure the P300 brain wave, an involuntary response to stimuli that starts in the temporoparietal junction and spreads across the rest of the brain. When the wave hits the surface of the brain, the electrodes detect the signal. The stronger the reaction of the subject to a particularly stimuli, the stronger the P300 brain wave...
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A simple slide show could be the next weapon against terrorists. Using a brain-electrode cap and imagery, scientists at Northwestern University can pick the date, location and means of a future terrorist attack from the minds of America's enemies.
The new research could not only stop terrorist attacks before they happen, but could also be used to help prevent other capers, or convict criminals after they break the law.
"We presented [the mock terrorists] with stimuli that are rational choices of what they might do, said J. Peter Rosenfeld, a scientist at Northwestern University and coauthor of a new study in the journal Psychophysiology.
"They sit in a chair, we put brain wave recording electrodes on their scalp and they look at the screen."
The electrodes measure the P300 brain wave, an involuntary response to stimuli that starts in the temporoparietal junction and spreads across the rest of the brain. When the wave hits the surface of the brain, the electrodes detect the signal. The stronger the reaction of the subject to a particularly stimuli, the stronger the P300 brain wave...
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