The Difficulty of Discerning the Effect of Neuroscience: a Peer Commentary of Shen Et Al. 2018

Abstract

In a recent issue of The Journal of Law and the Biosciences, Francis Shen and his coauthors offer a new dataset examining the extent to which mock jurors place weight on neuroscience-based memory recognition detection evidence, which seeks to detect whether an individual possesses knowledge that allows an inference as to that person’s role in a prior event (such as a crime). In this brief commentary, I seek to critically examine what we can learn from that dataset, and provide some framework for future research in this area.

Keywords: CIT, Law & Neuroscience, Lie Detection