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Brain Fingerprinting

Presented by
M Naresh Babu
 INTRODUCTION
 Brain Fingerprinting technique used to
determine scientifically what information is, or
is not stored in a particular brain.
 Measures the response to the Visual and the
Audio stimulus.
 Stimulus is a thing or event that evokes a
specific functional reaction in an organ or
tissue.
 It does this by measuring electrical brainwave
responses to words, phrases, or pictures that
are presented on a computer screen
 THE INVENTION
 Brain fingerprinting was invented by Lawrence
Farewell.
 Brain Fingerprinting technology is based on an
electrical signal known as MERMER.
 Farwell's brain fingerprinting originally used
the wellknown P300 brain response to detect
the brain's recognition of the known
information
 MERMER
 Farwell discovered the P300-MERMER
("Memory and Encoding Related Multifaceted
Electroencephalographic Response")
 A MERMER is an electrical signal which is part
of the brainwave observed in response to
familiar information.
 When the brain recognizes something, then
there is increase in neurons activity, so elicit
some changes in brain wave signals .
 OPERATING MECHANISM
Triggers  Electrical
Picture/word neurons of brain  Generate Potentials
shown to an s Accumulate
individual brainwav in brain
(Stimulus)  e (P300) (MERMER)
Headgear fitted
with Electrodes
placed on scalp

Generates
Found P300 – MERMER
Study the data analog signals  EEG
Guilty/ (an scalp ERP
Not guilty amplifier EEG) Measures
using a
brainwaves
Computer program

 
 Brain waves are used to detect to detect the crime

 A suspect is tested by looking at three kinds of information

represented by different colored lines
 RED : Information the suspect is expected to know. It arises due to
target type stimulus.
 GREEN : Information not to suspect. The irrelevant stimuli is
responsible for this type of brain waves.
 BLUE : Information of the crime that only perpetrator would
know. This occurs due to probes.
 ONE OF THE TEST CASES OF A
SUSPECT 
 The Following figure shows the RED and BLUE lines
are closely correlated.
 This indicates the suspect or the criminal has the
knowledge of the CRIME.
STAGES OF BRAIN FINGERPRINTING 

 Crime Scene Evidence Collection

 Brain Evidence collection
 Computer Evidence Analysis
 Scientific Result
 FEATURES & APPLICATIONS
 Brain fingerprinting" is a computer-based test that is designed to
discover, document, and provide evidence of guilty knowledge
regarding crimes, and to identify individuals with a specific training
or expertise such as members of dormant terrorist cells or bomb
makers. The National Security is one of the applications regarding
this.
 It has also been used to evaluate brain functioning as a means of early
detection of Alzheimer's and other cognitively degenerative diseases,
and to evaluate the effectiveness of advertising by measuring brain
responses. It is applied in the Medical field.
 Basically Brain fingerprinting is not lie detection. It is different from
polygraph(lie-detector), which measures emotion-based physiological
signals such as heart rate, sweating and blood pressure .
 It can help solve crimes.
 LIMITATIONS
 Brain fingerprinting detects information-processing
brain responses that reveal what information is stored
in the subject's brain. It does not detect how that
information got there.
 Brain fingerprinting does not detect lies. It simply
detects information. No questions are asked or
answered during a brain fingerprinting test.
 CONCLUSION
 • It would be inappropriate to generalize the
results of the present research because of the
small sample of subjects.
 But the 100% accuracy and high confidence
level of the results, however, provide further
support for results from previous research
using brain MERMER testing.
 THANK YOU
M.NARESH BABU
18885A0507
CSE-A