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A Rajendar (07R11A0502)
Department of CSE, Geethanjali College of Engineering and Technology
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MERMER Methodology
Why Brain Fingerprinting...
Brain Fingerprinting is based on the principle The procedure used is similar to the Guilty Knowledge
that the brain is central to all human acts. In a criminal act, Test; a series of words, sounds, or pictures are presented
there may or may not be many kinds of peripheral via computer to the subject for a fraction of a second each.
evidence, but the brain is always there, planning, Each of these stimuli are organised by the test-giver to be a
executing, and recording the crime. The fundamental “Target,” “Irrelevant,” or a “Probe.” The Target stimuli are
difference between a perpetrator and a falsely accused, chosen to be relevant information to the tested subject, and
innocent person is that the perpetrator, having committed are used to establish a baseline brain response for
the crime, has the details of the crime stored in his brain, information that is significant to the subject being tested.
and the innocent suspect does not. This is what Brain The subject is instructed to press on button for Targets,
Fingerprinting detects scientifically and another button for all other stimuli. Most of the non-
Target stimuli are Irrelevant, and are totally unrelated to
The secrets of Brain Fingerprinting the situation that the subject is being tested for. The
Matching evidence at the crime scene with evidence in Irrelevant stimuli do not elicit a MERMER, and so
the brain.... establish a baseline brain response for information that is
insignificant to the subject in this context. Some of the
When a crime is committed, a record is stored in the brain non-Target are relevant to the situation that the subject is
of the perpetrator. Brain Fingerprinting provides a means being tested for. These stimuli, Probes, are relevant to the
to objectively and scientifically connect evidence from the test, and are significant to the subject, and will elicit a
crime scene with evidence stored in the brain. (This is MERMER, signifying that the subject has understood that
similar to the process of connecting DNA samples from stimuli to be significant. A subject lacking this information
the perpetrator with biological evidence found at the scene in their brain, the response to the Probe stimulus will be
of the crime; only the evidence evaluated by Brain indistinguishable from the irrelevant stimulus. This
Fingerprinting is evidence stored in the brain.) Brain response does not elicit a MERMER, indicating that the
Fingerprinting measures electrical brain activity in information is absent from their mind. Note that there does
not have to be an emotional response of any kind to the the details of the crime are stored in the brain of the
stimuli- this test is entirely reliant upon recognition suspect – or "information absent" ("innocent") – the details
response to the stimuli, and relies upon a difference in of the crime is not stored in the brain of the suspect
recognition- hence the association with the Oddball effect
Scientific Procedure, Research, and Applications
4. Computer Controlled