Brain Fingerprinting Testing
Detects Information
Brain Fingerprinting testing
detects information stored in the human brain. A specific, electrical brain
wave response, known as a P300, is emitted by the brain within a fraction of a
second when an individual recognizes and processes an incoming stimulus that is
significant or noteworthy. When an irrelevant stimulus is seen, it is seen as
being insignificant and not noteworthy and a P300 is not emitted. The P300
electrical brain wave response is widely known and accepted in the scientific
community. There have been hundreds of studies conducted and articles published
on it over the past thirty years. In his research on the P300 response, Dr.
Farwell discovered that the P300 was one aspect of a larger brain-wave response
that he named a MERMER® (memory and encoding related multifaceted
electroencephalographic response). The MERMER comprises a P300 response,
occurring 300 to 800 ms after the stimulus, and additional patterns occurring
more than 800 ms after the stimulus, providing even more accurate results.
Scientific Procedure
Brain Fingerprinting testing
incorporates the following procedure. A sequence of words, pictures or sounds
is presented under computer control for a fraction of a second each. Three
types of stimuli are presented: "targets," "irrelevants," and "probes." The
targets consist of information known to the suspect, which will establish a
baseline brain response (MERMER) for information known to be significant to
this subject in context. The subject is given a list of the target stimuli and
instructed to press a particular button in response to targets and another
button in response to all other stimuli. Most of the non-target stimuli are
irrelevant, having no relation to the situation being tested. These irrelevants
do not elicit a MERMER, and therefore establish a baseline brain response for
information that is not significant to this suspect in this context. Some of
the non-target stimuli are relevant to the situation being tested. These
relevant stimuli are referred to as probes; information relevant to the test.
For a subject with specific knowledge of material being tested, the probes are
noteworthy due to that knowledge, and therefore the probes elicit a MERMER,
indicating "information present" — information stored in the brain. For a
subject lacking this knowledge, probes are indistinguishable from the
irrelevants, and thus probes do not elicit a MERMER, indicating "information
absent" — information not stored in the brain.
Computer Controlled
The entire Brain
Fingerprinting system is under computer control, including presentation of the
stimuli, recording of electrical brain activity, a mathematical data analysis
algorithm that compares the responses to the three types of stimuli and
produces a determination of "information present" or "information absent," and
a statistical confidence level for this determination. At no time during the
analysis do biases and interpretations by the person giving the test affect the
presentation or the results of the stimulus presentation.
Scientific Experiments, Field
Tests, and Criminal Cases
Scientific studies, field tests and actual
criminal cases involving over 175 individuals described in various scientific
publications and technical reports by Dr. Lawrence A. Farwell have verified the
extremely high level of accuracy, utility, cost-effectiveness, and overall
credibility of the Brain Fingerprinting system. The system has been extremely
accurate in all studies, field tests, and actual cases conducted at the Federal
Bureau of Investigation, a US intelligence agency, the police departments and
with other organizations and individuals.
