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1 Online-Ressource (203 pages)
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Online-Ausg.
ISBN:
0472071483
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0472051482
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0472027026
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1283066629
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9780472071487
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9780472051489
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9780472027026
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9781283066624
Inhalt:
"The Lying Brain is a study to take seriously. Its argument is timely, clear, and of particular importance to the enlargement of our understanding of the relationships among science studies, literary studies, and technology studies."--Ronald Schleifer, University of Oklahoma Real and imagined machines, including mental microscopes, thought translators, and polygraphs, have long promised to detect deception in human beings. Now, via fMRI and EEG, neuroscientists seem to have found what scientists, lawyers, and law enforcement officials have sought for over a century: foolproof lie detection. But are these new lie detection technologies any different from their predecessors? The Lying Brain is the first book to explore the cultural history of an array of lie detection technologies: their ideological assumptions, the scientific and fictional literatures that create and market them, and the literacies required for their interpretation. By examining a rich archive of materials about lie detection--from science to science fiction--The Lying Brain demonstrates the interconnections of science, literature, and popular culture in the development and dissemination of deception detection in the American cultural imagination. As Melissa Littlefield demonstrates, neuroscience is not building a more accurate lie detector; it is simply recycling centuries-old ideologies about deception and its detection. Cover art: "Human Brain" © Denis Barbulet, courtesy of Shutterstock.com
Inhalt:
Selling the psychological detective: Hugo Munsterberg's applied psychology and The achievements of Luther Trant, 1907-30 -- The science of lying in a laboratory: William Marston's deceptive consciousness, 1913-22 -- Thought in translation: reading the mind in science and science fiction, 1930-50 -- Without a trace: brain fingerprinting, biometrics, and body snatching -- A tremor in the brain: fMRI lie detection, brain fingerprinting, and the organ of deceit in post-9/11 America -- Coda: lie detection as patterned repetition, from The demolished man to The truth machine
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 173-190) and index
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English
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ISBN 0472051482
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ISBN 0472071483
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ISBN 9780472051489
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ISBN 9780472071487
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Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Littlefield, Melissa M., 1979- Lying brain Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, ©2011
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