SEMINAR ON

BRAIN FINGERPRINTING

Presentation by
T.V.VISHNU PRASAD
 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 well-

known 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 :
Picture/word Electrical
Generates
shown to an Potentials
Triggers brainwave
individual Accumulate in
neurons (P300)
(Stimulus) brain
(MERMER)
of brain
Headgear fitted
with
Electrodes placed
on scalp

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