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Nature Neuroscience 11, 1231 (1 November 2008) | doi:10.1038/nn1108-1231

Deceiving the law

A court near Mumbai, India, recently became the first to admit a neuroscience-based lie-detection technique as evidence. Although the use of this technology for such accurate lie detection is dubious, this court used evidence from an electroencephalography-based technique to convict a suspect of murder.