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This is Your Brain on Trial

New Books in Science, Technology, and Society

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Using Multi Voxal Pattern Analysis to Predict Violence

The idea of multi voxal pattern analysis is not being used in courts yet. But researchers compile a big data set of whole brain scans of many people that are then linked to an outcome of interest. And from there, once the algorithm is trained on that, it's then able to be shown, again in big scarequotes, the brain data of an individual  in order to predict whether they'll engage in further violence.

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