The Lying Brain: Lie Detection in Science and Science Fiction

Littlefield, Melissa M.

ISBN 10: 0472051482 ISBN 13: 9780472051489

Verlag: The University of Michigan Press, 2011

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Book by Littlefield Melissa M

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Real and imagined machines, including mental microscopes, thought translators, and polygraphs, have long promised to detect deception in human beings. Now, via fMRI and EEG, neuroscientists seem to have found what scientists, lawyers, and law enforcement officials have sought for over a century: foolproof lie detection. But are these new lie detection technologies any different from their predecessors? The Lying Brain is the first book to explore the cultural history of an array of lie detection technologies: their ideological assumptions, the scientific and fictional literatures that create and market them, and the literacies required for their interpretation. By examining a rich archive of materials about lie detection-from science to science fiction-The Lying Brain demonstrates the interconnections of science, literature, and popular culture in the development and dissemination of deception detection in the American cultural imagination. As Melissa Littlefield demonstrates, neuroscience is not building a more accurate lie detector; it is simply recycling centuries-old ideologies about deception and its detection. ""The Lying Brain is a study to take seriously. Its argument is timely, clear, and of particular importance to the enlargement of our understanding of the relationships among science studies, literary studies, and technology studies.""

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""The Lying Brain" is a study to take seriously. Its argument is timely, clear, and of particular importance to the enlargement of our understanding of the relationships among science studies, literary studies, and technology studies."---Ronald Schleifer, University of OklahomaReal and imagined machines, including mental microscopes, thought translators, and polygraphs, have long promised to detect deception in human beings. Now, via fMRI and EEG, neuroscientists seem to have found what scientists, lawyers, and law enforcement officials have sought for over a century: foolproof lie detection. But are these new lie detection technologies any different from their predecessors? "The Lying Brain" is the first book to explore the cultural history of an array of lie detection technologies: their ideological assumptions, the scientific and fictional literatures that create and market them, and the literacies required for their interpretation.By examining a rich archive of materials about lie detection---from science to science fiction---"The Lying Brain" demonstrates the interconnections of science, literature, and popular culture in the development and dissemination of deception detection in the American cultural imagination. As Melissa Littlefield demonstrates, neuroscience is not building a more accurate lie detector; it is simply recycling centuries-old ideologies about deception and its detection.Cover art: "Human Brain" (c) Denis Barbulet, courtesy of Shutterstock.com

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• Verlag: The University of Michigan Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2011
• ISBN 10: 0472051482
• ISBN 13: 9780472051489
• Einband: Rústica
• Anzahl der Seiten: 216