On Mon, 24 Apr 2006 08:38:36 -0700, SMNagel29 wrote:
>Hi Mike -

Hi there!

>L. Farwell has successfully marketed P300 event-related potentials
>as an indicator of deception in the criminal justice arena:
>TIME Magazine has named Dr. Lawrence Farwell to the TIME 100:
>The Next Wave, the 100 Innovators who may be "the Picassos or
>Einsteins of the 21st century."
http://www.brainwavescience.com/AboutFarwell.php

WOW and he's a black belt in Kung Fu TOO!  See:
http://www.brainwavescience.com/KungFuJump.php
I would uncritically accept his work without review of results
if he were a Ninja because as we all know, regardless of
the merit of their scientific activities, Ninjas are just so
incredibly COOL! ;-)

>I imagine the CIA is using this so-called "Brain Finger
>Printing" technique.

I hope not.  Then again, given how badly the CIA has
been operating for the past several years, I shouldn't be
surprised.  I would be somewhat surprised if it turned
out that the CIA got their results through a Targ and
Puthoff remote viewing set-up (see:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Remote_viewing )
but only somewhat surprised.

>The last time I checked, the data indicated no significant
>improvement in validity using ERP's over GSR/SCR as
>used in traditional polygraphic testing. Perhaps this is a
>demonstration of the power of (dare I say glitzy?) marketing.

Or the enduring truth of P.T. Barnum's reflection on humanity
"There's a customer born every minute" (most people substitute
"sucker" for customer but there is some question about whether
Barnum actually used the word "sucker" -- see:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/There_is_a_sucker_born_every_minute )

>I wonder what Farwell's mentor, Emanuel Donchin, thinks
>of his student's career direction. I see no mention of brain finger
> printing at Donchin's web site, only mention of the ERP
>computer control work they did together:
>http://www.cas.usf.edu/psychology/fac_donchin.htm

How could Donchin not be proud of him -- after all, Farwell
is a black belt in kung fu which is almost as cool as being a
ninja! ;-)

>Fourth paragraph:
>http://www.nap.edu/books/0309084369/html/161.html
>
>http://www.uphs.upenn.edu/trc/conditioning/emergingneurotech.pdf
>
>Yes. . .  it is final's week, and I will do almost anything to avoid
>the last stack of papers!  =)

Been there, doing that.  When you're ready to scream after a
reading term paper with a page of text that is one long run-on
sentence, stop, relax, and ask what would a ninja do? ;-)

The semester can't end soon enough for some of us. ;-)

-Mike Palij
New York University
[EMAIL PROTECTED]

>Best,
>Sandra





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