August 2, 2010

Reading Minds

by Kent Scheidegger
Crime and Consequences

Now this is spooky. Researchers at Northwestern University were able to confirm suspected details of mock terrorism plans by reading the brain waves of volunteers. The accuracy in this part of the study was 100%. Another part of the study involved finding plans without prior knowledge.

The most intriguing part of the study in terms of real-word implications, according to Psychology Professor Peter Rosenfeld, is that even when the researchers had no advance details about mock terrorism plans, the technology was still accurate in identifying critical concealed information.

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