{"id":475,"date":"2010-08-19T17:07:50","date_gmt":"2010-08-19T21:07:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/govsponsoredstalking.info\/?p=475"},"modified":"2010-08-19T17:09:45","modified_gmt":"2010-08-19T21:09:45","slug":"fighting-crime-by-reading-minds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/govsponsoredstalking.info\/?p=475","title":{"rendered":"Fighting Crime by Reading Minds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Fighting Crime by Reading Minds<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>What if we could read the mind of a terrorist? Researchers at Northwestern University in Chicago say they have taken a step closer to that reality with a test that could uncover nefarious plans by measuring brain waves.<\/p>\n<p>In a study published in the journal Psychophysiology, psychologists John Meixner and Peter Rosenfeld used electrodes to measure the brain waves of 29 undergraduates who had been told to mock-plan either a terrorist bombing in Houston in July, or a vacation in a different city in a different month. The researchers then presented the students with the names of various cities, methods of terrorist attack and dates. As they did so, they scanned the subjects&#8217; brains with electroencephalography (EEG), which records electrical activity along the scalp produced by the firing of neurons.  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.time.com\/time\/health\/article\/0,8599,2009131,00.html?artId=2009131?contType=article?chn=sciHealth\"><strong>More<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What if we could read the mind of a terrorist? Researchers at Northwestern University in Chicago say they have taken a step closer to that reality with a test that could uncover nefarious plans by measuring brain waves. <a href=\"https:\/\/govsponsoredstalking.info\/?p=475\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[93],"class_list":["post-475","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-new-york","tag-new-york"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/govsponsoredstalking.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/475","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/govsponsoredstalking.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/govsponsoredstalking.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/govsponsoredstalking.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/govsponsoredstalking.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=475"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/govsponsoredstalking.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/475\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":477,"href":"https:\/\/govsponsoredstalking.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/475\/revisions\/477"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/govsponsoredstalking.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=475"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/govsponsoredstalking.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=475"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/govsponsoredstalking.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=475"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}