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36 Harv. J. L. & Pub. Pol'y 653 (2013)
Neuroscience, Mental Privacy, and the Law

handle is hein.journals/hjlpp36 and id is 668 raw text is: NEUROSCIENCE, MENTAL PRIVACY,
AND THE LAW
FRANCIS X. SHEN*
IN TRODUCTION     ............................................................ 654
I. GOVERNMENT USE OF NEUROSCIENCE
IN   L A W   ................................................................... 659
A. The Use of Neuroscientific Evidence
in  L aw   .............................................................. 660
B. The Overlooked History of Neurolaw:
The Case of EEG and Epilepsy .................... 664
II. THE MENTAL PRIVACY PANIC .............................. 668
A. Seeds of a Mental Privacy Panic .................. 668
B. Mind, Brain, and Behavior ........................... 671
C. Mind Reading Typology .............................. 673
III. MIND READING WITH NEUROIMAGING:
WHAT WE CAN (AND CANNOT) Do ................... 679
A. Lie Detection with fMRI ............................... 679
B. Memory Detection with fMRI ..................... 682
C. Memory Recognition with EEG .................. 683
D. Decoding of Visual Stimuli with
fM R I  ................................................................. 687
IV. PROTECTING MENTAL PRIVACY: THE
FOURTH AND FIFTH AMENDMENTS ..................... 692
A. Scholars Scorecard on Mental
P riv acy  ............................................................ 692
B. Fourth Amendment ...................................... 698
C.  Fifth  Am  endm  ent .......................................... 701
V. ADDITIONAL THREATS TO MENTAL
P RIV A C Y  ................................................................. 707
* Associate Professor, University of Minnesota Law School; Executive Director of
Education and Outreach, MacArthur Foundation Research Network on Law and
Neuroscience. For helpful research assistance, the author thanks John Frost, Martha
Kramer, Alissa Mitchell, and Jason Reed. For helpful comments, the author thanks
Adam Steiner. The author notes that this work is Ad Maiorem Dei Gloriam.