The lying brain : lie detection in science and science fiction / Melissa M. Littlefield.

Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, [2011], ©2011.

x, 203 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Selling the psychological detective: Hugo Munsterberg's applied psychology and The achievements of Luther Trant, 1907-30 -- The science of lying in a laboratory: William Marston's deceptive consciousness, 1913-22 -- Thought in translation: reading the mind in science and science fiction, 1930-50 -- Without a trace: brain fingerprinting, biometrics, and body snatching -- A tremor in the brain: fMRI lie detection, brain fingerprinting, and the organ of deceit in post-9/11 America -- Coda: lie detection as patterned repetition, from The demolished man to The truth machine.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 173-190) and index.