If You Could Read My Mind

摘要

Modern advances in the neurosciences have allowed investigators to correlate the activity of brain centers with behavioral and mental states in a manner previously unimaginable. Emergent technologies capable of imaging neural activity and electrophysiological recording are making it possible to "look into" the brain of an individual and determine the activity of nerve cell circuitry that is the basis of the individual's current behavior and mental state. Techniques such as functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) have shown great promise, both as diagnostic tools for the evaluation of injury or disease in the central nervous system and investigative tools by which the correlation of behaviors, including deception, and their underlying neural activity can be measured and evaluated.