In the 2013 feature film Justice Is Mind, a defendant is put on trial for an alleged double murder he does not remember committing. The evidence? His own memory obtained from a new MRI procedure called fvMRI (functional video magnetic resonance imaging). It may be science fiction today, but it’s looking more and more likely that it will be science fact tomorrow. The movie focuses on ‘thought identification’ using advanced fMRI techniques which are currently being developed at Carnegie Mellon University. Carnegie Mellon is not alone in this. Scientists at UC Berkeley claimed an astounding breakthrough in 2011 by generating moving pictures from decoded brain signals.
Hat tip to ABA Behavioral & Neuroscience Law Committee
