MRI brain imaging pinpoints deception

Katia Moskvitch -Our ability to project a picture of ourselves in other people's minds may be down to a distinct form of brain activity, according to a report.

A US team used functional magnetic resonance imaging to observe the brains of people playing a strategic game.

They write in the journal PNAS that those who tried to trick their rivals showed a unique brain activity.

The report says this could help shed light into what goes on in the minds of people with mental disorders.

"The study is a way to probe the way that we think how other people think about us," Read Montague of the Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, US, a co-author of the paper, told BBC News. ...

The team found that about 11% of the players consciously tried to deceive their opponents by making them believe they were being honest - thus aiming to reap higher profits. ...

via BBC News - MRI brain imaging pinpoints deception.