April 14 Panel, “Does Brain-Based Lie Detection Belong in American Courtrooms?”: Featuring Visiting Scholar Francis Shen
Petrie-Flom Visiting Scholar Dr. Francis Shen served as a panelist at the Neuroethics Seminar Series event, "Does Brain-Based Lie Detection Belong in American Courtrooms?" at the Center for Bioethics, Harvard Medical School on Tuesday, April 14, 2015.
This conversation between leaders in neuroethics, forensic psychology and neurolaw will consider the state of science and the implications of neuroscientifiic advances for ethics and law. Can neuroscientific methods accurately distinguish truth-telling from lying? Are there limitations in our science? If so, can these limitations be addressed sufficiently to meet rules of evidence? If not, will these tests have a role in the courtroom? What are the legal and ethical implications of including neuroscientific evidence of lying?
This event is hosted by our colleagues at the Center for Bioethics and cosponsored by the Petrie-Flom Center (HLS), the Center for Law, Brain and Behavior (MGH). the Institute for the Neuroscience (BWH), and the Mind Brain Behavior Interfaculty Initiative, Center for Brain Science and the Department of Neurobiology at Harvard University.