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    Brain fingerprinting is a technique that uses brainwave responses to determine what information is stored in a person's brain. It measures electrical potentials in the brain in response to visual or audio stimuli. Brain fingerprinting was invented by Lawrence Farwell and uses the P300 brain response, also known as MERMER, to detect recognition of known information. A brain fingerprinting test involves presenting a suspect with information and measuring their brainwaves, looking for correlations between information only the perpetrator would know and brainwave changes. The technique has applications in national security, medicine, and solving crimes.

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    Brain fingerprinting is a technique that uses brainwave responses to determine what information is stored in a person's brain. It measures electrical potentials in the brain in response to visual or audio stimuli. Brain fingerprinting was invented by Lawrence Farwell and uses the P300 brain response, also known as MERMER, to detect recognition of known information. A brain fingerprinting test involves presenting a suspect with information and measuring their brainwaves, looking for correlations between information only the perpetrator would know and brainwave changes. The technique has applications in national security, medicine, and solving crimes.

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    Brain fingerprinting is a technique that uses brainwave responses to determine what information is stored in a person's brain. It measures electrical potentials in the brain in response to visual or audio stimuli. Brain fingerprinting was invented by Lawrence Farwell and uses the P300 brain response, also known as MERMER, to detect recognition of known information. A brain fingerprinting test involves presenting a suspect with information and measuring their brainwaves, looking for correlations between information only the perpetrator would know and brainwave changes. The technique has applications in national security, medicine, and solving crimes.

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    Brain fingerprinting is a technique that uses brainwave responses to determine what information is stored in a person's brain. It measures electrical potentials in the brain in response to visual or audio stimuli. Brain fingerprinting was invented by Lawrence Farwell and uses the P300 brain response, also known as MERMER, to detect recognition of known information. A brain fingerprinting test involves presenting a suspect with information and measuring their brainwaves, looking for correlations between information only the perpetrator would know and brainwave changes. The technique has applications in national security, medicine, and solving crimes.

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    SEMINAR ON

    BRAIN FINGERPRINTING

    Presentation by
    T.V.VISHNU PRASAD
    INTRODUCTION

     Brain Fingerprinting technique used to determine scientifically


    what information is, or is not stored in a particular brain.

     Measures the response to the Visual and the Audio stimulus.

     Stimulus is a thing or event that evokes a specific functional


    reaction in an organ or tissue.

     It does this by measuring electrical brainwave responses to


    words, phrases, or pictures that are presented on a computer
    screen
    THE INVENTION

     Brain fingerprinting was invented by Lawrence Farewell.

    Brain Fingerprinting technology is based on an electrical signal


    known as MERMER.

     Farwell's brain fingerprinting originally used the well-


    known P300 brain response to detect the brain's recognition of the
    known information
    MERMER

     Farwell discovered the P300-MERMER ("Memory and


    Encoding Related Multifaceted Electroencephalographic
    Response")

    A MERMER is an electrical signal which is part of the brainwave


    observed in response to familiar information..

    When the brain recognizes something, then there is increase in


    neurons activity, so elicit some changes in brain wave signals .
    OPERATING MECHANISM :
    Picture/word Electrical
    Generates
    shown to an Potentials
    Triggers brainwave
    individual Accumulate in
    neurons (P300)
    (Stimulus) brain
    (MERMER)
    of brain
    Headgear fitted
    with
    Electrodes placed
    on scalp

    Study P300 –
    Generates analog
    EEG MERMER
    Found (an scalp ERP
    the data amplifier
    Guilty/ Not signals
    Using a EEG)
    guilty Measures
    computer
    program brainwaves
    A suspect is tested by looking at three kinds of information
    represented by different colored lines :
    RED : Information the suspect is expected to know. It
    arises due to target type stimulus.
    GREEN : Information not to suspect. The irrelevant
    stimuli is responsible for this type of brain waves.
    BLUE : Information of the crime that only perpetrator
    would know. This occurs due to probes.
    ONE OF THE TEST CASES OF A SUSPECT

    The Following figure shows the RED and BLUE lines are
    closely correlated.
    This indicates the suspect or the criminal has the knowledge
    of the CRIME.
    STAGES OF BRAIN FINGERPRINTING

     Crime Scene Evidence Collection

    Brain Evidence collection

    Computer Evidence Analysis

    Scientific Result
    FEATURES & APPLICATIONS
    Brain fingerprinting" is a computer-based test that is designed to
    discover, document, and provide evidence of guilty knowledge regarding
    crimes, and to identify individuals with a specific training or expertise
    such as members of dormant terrorist cells or bomb makers. The
    National Security is one of the applications regarding this.

    It has also been used to evaluate brain functioning as a means of


    early detection of Alzheimer's and other cognitively degenerative
    diseases, and to evaluate the effectiveness of advertising by measuring
    brain responses. It is applied in the Medical field.

    Basically Brain fingerprinting is not lie detection. It is different from


    polygraph(lie-detector), which measures emotion-based physiological
    signals such as heart rate, sweating and blood pressure

    It can help solve crimes.


    LIMITATIONS

    Brain fingerprinting detects information-processing brain


    responses that reveal what information is stored in the subject's
    brain. It does not detect how that information got there.

    Brain fingerprinting does not detect lies. It simply detects


    information. No questions are asked or answered during a brain
    fingerprinting test.
    CONCLUSION

    • It would be inappropriate to generalize the results of the


    present research because of the small sample of subjects.

    • But the 100% accuracy and high confidence level of the


    results, however, provide further support for results from
    previous research using brain MERMER testing.

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