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In a modern-age whodunnit, the brain is used as evidence in an Indian trial

By John Hockenberry, Adaora Udoji, Molly Webster

Tuesday, September 23 2008

India has become the first country to convict a person of a crime based on a brain scan. This past summer, a woman was given a life sentence for murder after prosecutors strapped her to memory-scanning electrodes and ran a test called Brain Electrical Oscillations Signature, or BEOS. Could this be coming to America anytime soon?

Guest: Jonah Lehrer, author of "Proust was a Neuroscientist"
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