Lies and dishonesty can be identified by analyzing activity in the brain. The following studies describe how covert intentions and deception can be identified with fMRI, PET, or EEG analysis.
A cognitive neurobiological account of deception: evidence from functional neuroimaging. (Link)
A mock terrorism application of the P300-based concealed information test. (Link)
A pilot study of functional magnetic resonance imaging brain correlates of deception in healthy young men. (Link)
A replication study of the neural correlates of deception. (Link)
A truth that’s told with bad intent: an ERP study of deception. (Link)
An event-related potential study of deception to self preferences. (Link)
Are errors differentiable from deceptive responses when feigning memory impairment? An fMRI study. (Link)
Behavioural and functional anatomical correlates of deception in humans. (Link)
Brain activity during simulated deception: an event-related functional magnetic resonance study. (Link)
Cooperation and deception recruit different subsets of the theory-of-mind network. (Link)
Deceiving others: distinct neural responses of the prefrontal cortex and amygdala in simple fabrication and deception with social interactions. (Link)
Detecting concealed information using brain-imaging technology. (Link)
Detecting deception using functional magnetic resonance imaging. (Link)
Dissociable roles of prefrontal and anterior cingulate cortices in deception. (Link)
Do parkinsonian patients have trouble telling lies? The neurobiological basis of deceptive behaviour. (Link)
fMRI study of deliberate deception. (Link)
fNIRS-based online deception decoding. (Link)
Functional near-infrared spectroscopy to investigate hemodynamic responses to deception in the prefrontal cortex. (Link)
Lying about facial recognition: an fMRI study. (Link)
Lying about the valence of affective pictures: an fMRI study. (Link)
Mock crime application of the Complex Trial Protocol (CTP) P300-based concealed information test. (Link)
Neural correlates of feigned memory impairment are distinguishable from answering randomly and answering incorrectly: an fMRI and behavioral study. (Link)
Neural correlates of feigned memory impairment. (Link)
Neural correlates of telling lies: a functional magnetic resonance imaging study at 4 Tesla. (Link)
Neural correlates of true memory, false memory, and deception. (Link)
Neural processes underlying self- and other-related lies: an individual difference approach using fMRI. (Link)
Neural signatures of strategic types in a two-person bargaining game. (Link)
Patterns of neural activity associated with honest and dishonest moral decisions. (Link)
Prefrontal white matter in pathological liars. (Link)
Psychopathic traits and deception: functional magnetic resonance imaging study. (Link)
Reading hidden intentions in the human brain. (Link)
Telling truth from lie in individual subjects with fast event-related fMRI. (Link)
The contributions of prefrontal cortex and executive control to deception: evidence from activation likelihood estimate meta-analyses. (Link)
The neural circuitry of a broken promise. (Link)
The neurobiology of deception: evidence from neuroimaging and loss-of-function studies. (Link)
The processes leading to deception: ERP spatiotemporal principal component analysis and source analysis. (Link)
Use of event-related brain potentials (ERPs) to assess eyewitness accuracy and deception. (Link)
