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The Complexity of Brain Scans

By Kent Scheidegger et al.

The purported rise of brain scanning technologies in criminal cases has paralleled the growth of neurolaw within legal scholarship. But as with many new interfaces with law, the tendency to overplay the implications such technologies have regarding entrenched legal norms often ignores the mutable nature of our scientific understandings. Vaughan Bell over at Mind Hacks has a great new post up titled The fMRI Smackdown Cometh which highlights the growing skepticism regarding many of the brain scanning claims made of late: Over the last few months, the soul searching over the shortcomings of fMRI brain scanning has escaped the backrooms of imaging labs and has hit the mainstream. Numerous articles in hard hitting publications have questioned some common assumptions behind the technology, suggesting a backlash against the bright lights of brain scanning is in full swing...continue to full post

Full post as published by Crime and Consequences on June 26, 2008 (boomark / email).