Government agencies have looked into techniques whereby memories could be plucked from the minds of suspects and examined for clues, it was revealed at WIRED Health 2015.
Unfortunately for them, the neuroscientist helping to lead the memory studies on which those techniques could theoretically be based is not interested in helping.
“They have been in touch with me already,” Eleanor A. Maguire, professor of neuroscience at University College London and the Wellcome Trust Centre for Neuroimaging, told WIRED editor David Rowan at the conference, when questioned if GCHQ or the US NSA might one day explore such ideas.
By: Michael Rundle,
