Different parts of the brain are activated by lying vs honest statements. I believe the differences can be measured by functional magnetic reonance imaging (fMRI)scans. Is this scary or what?
200433
Brain waves would still fall trap to the familiar problem of someone who believes deeply that what they are saying is true. A pathological liar would not activate lying centers of the brain, just as he would not have an anxiety response on a standard lie detector. Also, there's the problem that the fMRI does not necessarily measure neural activity, merely the presence of blood. Further, the areas that "light up" when one is lying could also activate for various other reasons. They are the areas that control "emotion, conflict, and cognitive control - the amygdala, rostral cingulate, caudate, and thalamus," all of which would be involved in an intense interrogation.
200789
i have no dought that this will one day happen...people have found on freak events, a brain cell that reacts to a picture in lab animals...i would imagation after a while they will have much better brain mapping to a cellear level...then from there they could figure out how to make a computer to read the information...but i think that is as far as it will go...i do not think that the computer will think for us or anything like that...i think it would be read only in a sense
10798
The amygdala.  The "fight or flight" response is a hippocanthic thing...
333452
it's really a deep question and a good 1 too....you can control your brain according to your: behaviors,thoughts,beliefs but the most important thing is your HEART..your brain is really connected to your heart in some way, this connection is really very strong, do you know why?because all of our thoughts or behaviors could be sharing with other people(we could have the same beliefs that others have),but your heart is your own, nobody can know what is in your heart and nobody can change it too,so i am telling you that the right way to control your brain is by listening to your heart, your heart tells you what to do,it is your own and nobody can share it with you..always hear what your heart says and you would never feel sorry for that,trust me, your heart knows you like nobody does so it guides you to do the right thing always.....always....\ni hope it helped you..God bless you..
616223
This is a very interesting topic. It's like how you can hear yourself say something in your mind, but you don't actually hear sound. Or how you see a certain image when your eyes are open (hence, daydream). It's difficult to observe thoughts as they are happening, since the only way to actually formulate an opinion about what we are thinking is to analyze what we remember thinking. It's pretty amazing how our minds work, and what they control. We can't (more accurately, MOST of us can't) voluntarily control the rate of our heart beat, but we can voluntarily control our breathing. Yet, when we are asleep or not paying attention, our brain's nervous system takes over. It's so amazing...\n\nI can go on about this forever! : ) I actually have never heard of the Heisenberg Uncertainty principle but I'll look into it. (After a pause...) My thoughts are telling me to finish typing. ^_^
208987
Your eyes move depending on your thought process.  They say that you can tell if a person is lying by looking at their eyes.  If they look up its a lie, if they look down its the truth.  there are other things like this.  It is a subconcious movement of they eye.  George Carlin said that ehn he thinks about the past he always envisions it somewhere off to the left.  Its like the part of a book that you have already read.
103013
There are a variety of elements that come into play....\n\n- The skill of the individual trying to see if the other person is lying.\n\n- How practiced and skilled the individual is who is at lying.\n\n- How well they know each other.\n\n- The state of mind of the reader in that moment (i.e. how focused they are, the presence of mind-altering substances, etc.)\n\n\nKeep in mind that it's not only body language, there are tons of other subtle cues that the reader may or may not even pick up on a conscious level. This often plays out in a "gut feeling" the person is lying though the reader is unable to point to any external evidence.
177757
You could play different music for people and have them write down what they instantly think of when they hear it.  It would give you insight to the brain.  But it would give you insight to people in general as well.  Then you could place all your answers together and analyze it and report your findings.  You'd need to do this on many people, just a few won't tell you much.  This is more psychology than neuroscience, but maybe it would work.
163751
It works, in a limited way.\nActually it has more than 1 point of view.\nPsyhodinamically, it is said that when our conscious mind is resting, sub- & un-conscious mind are still active. And they have the capacity to store memories (long-term memories) so we can bypass our conscious mind by memorizing things (including vocabs) right into the subconscious mind. \nWhen is this window opened, it is while we asleep / through hypnosis.\n\nCognitive-psychology would see it from the brain working style. While we FALL asleep, our brain's waves turns from Alpha (wake / alert pattern) to Delta (sleeping pattern). It goes slowly (or quickly, depends on our mental state / how sleepy we are, etc) through Beta pattern first.\nWell, beta brain waves is known to be the most effective for brain to function. (That's one of the reason why people are suggested to listen to 60 beats instrumental music while studying, because it helps stimulate brain waves into this condition)\nWhen we are in this state, the brain will absorb the information exposed.\n\nOff course there are 2 obvious drawbacks.\n1. the phase / length of time when brain will 'learn' is raher limited. So it is not wise to depend on this method to learn new languages. It is most effective (I think) to use this method only to get used to the language itself and the pronounciation.\n2. brain can only takes vocabs / sound / pronounciation, and not grammar, since grammar / other language rules need thinking / understanding, and so need the conscious mind to be active.\n\nI am indonesian, and I speak mandarin, fujian, and french (apart from english), so I had had first hand experiences about these stuffs.\n\nThese methods help, but not in themselves sufficient to learn a language. Good luck!
194966
Because lying is more fun. For instance, if you ask me "What were you doing today," I will probably say "I put on my long pink wig, my purple bikini and high heels and I drove round to meet my boyfriend in my yellow Lamborghini." Truth is, I was in the office all day showing two customers how to deploy automated business processes onto engines in a fail safe... Are you still awake? \n\nYou see the point. Life would be so boring if we all told the truth. If I tell lies you can share my fantasies and my wishes instead of just the depressing repetitive misery of days in the office, cups of tea and configuring fault tolerant automated processes. Go on! Dream a little and don't be afraid to tell your friends a huge pile of complete untruths.
647153
Logical levels of abstraction and specification exist in the realms of the social, mental and physical -> so yes such concepts are a smothering by politically minded people, but also concepts are maintained by those without time to consider such things or minds...... its also worth stating that biological, psychological and social differences do exist and are studied by psychologists, neurologists, sociologists and the like -> however these studies are usually stopped in this politically crazy era in order to stop 'socially sensititve implications' occuring and thus causing mindless racisism and homophobia - obviously we cant go into every element but i think these are key concepts
448036
Pathalogical Liar or habitual liar
274100
It is not a fact and there is no proof of it. When it does happen there can be many explanations from hallucination to lack of oxygen to the brain. From a belief perspective that is another story and to each his own.
203755
No. We feel what we feel. Our emotions can be affected by stress, but that does not mean they are a lie. They are just how you feel at the moment.
91164
Take out the brain and they will pronounce you brain dead. The mind is generated by the brain. Like hologram. The mind is a part of the brain.
229007
By observation. When a person lies, his pupils will dilate. This is because, when you lie, the innate excitement will cause a release of epinephrine and norepinephrine (adrenaline and noradrenaline). This causes pupilar dilation. Secondly an MRI can be used to detect lies. This is because, lying is a creative process unlike telling the truth. So there is an increased brain activity when a person starts to tell a lie and the MRI will light up at the creative part of the brain.
160099
THERE ARE TIMES WHEN YOU CAN NOT FIND OUT IF A PERSON IS SPEAKING THE TRUTH OR NOT.THEY SOUND SO CONVINCING THAT ITS HARD TO FIND OUT.\nWHILE IN OTHER CASES IF YOU HAVE A DOUBT IF SOMEONE IS LYING TO YOU THEN KEEP ASKING THEM QUESTIONS ABOUT WHAT THEY ARE TALKING AND NOTE THE CHANGE OF VOICE AND THEIR TONE.\nA PERSON WHO LIES TO YOU WILL KEEP STARING AT YOU TRYING TO CONVINCE YOU THAT THEY ARE SPEAKING THE TRUTH OR THEY WILL LOOK DOWN TO THE GROUND.AT THAT POINT THEIR ORIGINAL TONE OF VOICE WILL ALSO CHANGE.\nI HAVE NOTICED THIS WITH MANY PEOPLE.