In our News story on using fMRI lie detection to uncover criminals (Nature 437, 457; 2005), we stated that Daniel Langleben and his colleagues could detect lies from truth with 99% accuracy. We wish to clarify that this was the accuracy for individual tests — the more likely average success rate for practical purposes is about 88%.
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News in Brief: Clarification. Nature 437, 803 (2005). https://doi.org/10.1038/437803b
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