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 --- To make changes to your subscription go to: http://acsun.frostburg.edu/cgi-bin/lyris.pl?enter=tips&text_mode=0&lang=english