When: Monday 16 December 2013, 1pm to 2:30pm
Where: Hughes Lecture Theatre, Hughes Building, Level 3, Room 309, The University of Adelaide, North Terrace Campus, Adelaide
For more information on the Neuroscience and the Law project, please visit http://royalsociety.org/policy/projects/brain-waves/responsibility-law/
Contact: Dr. Irina Baetu, School of Psychology, University of Adelaide, irina.baetu@adelaide.edu.au
Neuroscience and the Law is one of the Brain Waves projects initiated by the U.K. Royal Society. These projects investigate the potential and limitations of neuroscience for policymaking. Professor Mackintosh, who headed the Royal Society’s working group on neuroscience and the law, will present key findings from the report and discuss the following:
Has neuroscience abolished free will? Or at least the notion of criminal responsibility?
Could/should neuroscientific or genetic evidence be used to reduce a convicted criminal’s sentence?
Could such evidence be used in risk assessment to predict recidivism?
Can fMRI be used as a reliable lie detector?
Can fMRI determine whether someone is in real pain or just malingering?