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Luber B, Beynel L, Spellman T, Gura H, Ploesser M, Termini K, Lisanby SH. Effects of Online Single Pulse Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation on Prefrontal and Parietal Cortices in Deceptive Processing: A Preliminary Study. Front Hum Neurosci 2022; 16:883337. [PMID: 35795258 PMCID: PMC9250982 DOI: 10.3389/fnhum.2022.883337] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/24/2022] [Accepted: 05/26/2022] [Indexed: 11/25/2022] Open
Abstract
Transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) was used to test the functional role of parietal and prefrontal cortical regions activated during a playing card Guilty Knowledge Task (GKT). Single-pulse TMS was applied to 15 healthy volunteers at each of three target sites: left and right dorsolateral prefrontal cortex and midline parietal cortex. TMS pulses were applied at each of five latencies (from 0 to 480 ms) after the onset of a card stimulus. TMS applied to the parietal cortex exerted a latency-specific increase in inverse efficiency score and in reaction time when subjects were instructed to lie relative to when asked to respond with the truth, and this effect was specific to when TMS was applied at 240 ms after stimulus onset. No effects of TMS were detected at left or right DLPFC sites. This manipulation with TMS of performance in a deception task appears to support a critical role for the parietal cortex in intentional false responding, particularly in stimulus selection processes needed to execute a deceptive response in the context of a GKT. However, this interpretation is only preliminary, as further experiments are needed to compare performance within and outside of a deceptive context to clarify the effects of deceptive intent.
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Affiliation(s)
- Bruce Luber
- Noninvasive Neuromodulation Unit, Experimental Therapeutics and Pathophysiology Branch, National Institute of Mental Health, Bethesda, MD, United States
- *Correspondence: Bruce Luber
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- Noninvasive Neuromodulation Unit, Experimental Therapeutics and Pathophysiology Branch, National Institute of Mental Health, Bethesda, MD, United States
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- Department of Neuroscience, University of Connecticut School of Medicine, Farmington, CT, United States
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- Noninvasive Neuromodulation Unit, Experimental Therapeutics and Pathophysiology Branch, National Institute of Mental Health, Bethesda, MD, United States
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- Department of Psychiatry and Neurosciences, University of California, Riverside, Riverside, CA, United States
- Forensic Psychiatry, Department of Psychiatry, Faculty of Medicine, The University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada
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- Clinical and Forensic Psychology, Fifth Avenue Forensics, New York, NY, United States
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- Noninvasive Neuromodulation Unit, Experimental Therapeutics and Pathophysiology Branch, National Institute of Mental Health, Bethesda, MD, United States
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Sánchez N, Masip J, Gómez-Ariza CJ. Both High Cognitive Load and Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation Over the Right Inferior Frontal Cortex Make Truth and Lie Responses More Similar. Front Psychol 2020; 11:776. [PMID: 32508700 PMCID: PMC7248556 DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2020.00776] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/12/2019] [Accepted: 03/30/2020] [Indexed: 12/04/2022] Open
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Deception scholars have argued that increasing the liar’s cognitive system artificially can produce deception cues. However, if too much load is imposed, the truth tellers’ performance can also be impaired. To address this issue, we designed a veracity task that incorporated a secondary task to increase cognitive load gradually. Also, because deception has been associated with activity in the inferior frontal cortex (IFC), we examined the influence of transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) of the IFC on performance. During stimulation, participants truthfully or deceptively indicated whether each of a number of statements shown on screen was true or not. Higher load decreased recall but not general compliance or response times (RTs). Truthful trials yielded higher compliance rates and faster RTs than deceptive trials except for the highest load level. Anodal right stimulation decreased compliance in truthful trials when participants were not overloaded. Truth telling was more vulnerable to cognitive load and tDCS than lying.
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- Nuria Sánchez
- Department of Social Psychology and Anthropology, University of Salamanca, Salamanca, Spain
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- Department of Social Psychology and Anthropology, University of Salamanca, Salamanca, Spain
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Over 1.4 million people in the United States experience traumatic brain injury (TBI) each year and approximately 52,000 people die annually due to complications related to TBI. Traditionally, TBI has been viewed as a static injury with significant consequences for frontal lobe functioning that plateaus after some window of recovery, remaining relatively stable thereafter. However, over the past decade there has been growing consensus that the consequences of TBI are dynamic, with unique characteristics expressed at the individual level and over the life span. This chapter first discusses the pathophysiology of TBI in order to understand its dynamic process and then describes the behavioral changes that are the result of injury with focus on frontal lobe functions. It integrates a historical perspective on structural and functional brain-imaging approaches used to understand how TBI impacts the frontal lobes, as well as more recent approaches to examine large-scale network changes after TBI. The factors most useful for outcome prediction are surveyed, along with how the theoretical frameworks used to predict recovery have developed over time. In this chapter, the authors argue for the need to understand outcome after TBI as a dynamic process with individual trajectories, taking a network theory perspective to understand the consequences of disrupting frontal systems in TBI. Within this framework, understanding frontal lobe dysfunction within a larger coordinated neural network to study TBI may provide a novel perspective in outcome prediction and in developing individualized treatments.
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- Rachel A Bernier
- Department of Psychology, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, State College, PA, United States
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- Department of Psychology, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, State College, PA, United States.
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Suchotzki K, Berlijn A, Donath M, Gamer M. Testing the applied potential of the Sheffield Lie Test. Acta Psychol (Amst) 2018; 191:281-288. [PMID: 30391807 DOI: 10.1016/j.actpsy.2018.10.011] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/02/2018] [Revised: 08/04/2018] [Accepted: 10/19/2018] [Indexed: 11/19/2022] Open
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The Sheffield Lie Test (SLT) has been frequently used in laboratory research investigating basic mechanisms of deception. Its applied potential as a lie detection tool has been contested. The current two experiments used a reaction time SLT and investigated whether it can discriminate between participants who committed a mock crime and participants who performed an everyday activity. Results of the first experiment revealed that guilty participants (n = 32) took longer and committed more errors when having to deceptively deny the mock crime and deceptively confirm having performed the everyday activity in contrast to truthfully admitting the mock crime and denying the everyday activity. Innocent participants (n = 29) showed the reversed pattern. Individual Cohen's d's and the area under the ROC curve revealed a high above chance discrimination between both groups. In a second experiment, we repeated this procedure, yet participants were now given a more elaborate explanation of the alibi activity that all should pretend to have done. Although results still revealed the expected pattern in innocent participants (n = 48), the effect was not significant any more for the guilty participants (n = 46). Accordingly, classification accuracies also dropped. These two experiments demonstrate the applied potential of the SLT, yet at the same time its severe limitations. Potential solutions and suggestions for future research will be discussed.
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- Kristina Suchotzki
- Department of Psychology, University of Würzburg, Marcusstr. 9-11, 97080 Würzburg, Germany.
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- Department of Psychology, University of Würzburg, Marcusstr. 9-11, 97080 Würzburg, Germany
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- Department of Psychology, University of Würzburg, Marcusstr. 9-11, 97080 Würzburg, Germany
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- Department of Psychology, University of Würzburg, Marcusstr. 9-11, 97080 Würzburg, Germany
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Aïte A, Houdé O, Borst G. Stop in the name of lies: The cost of blocking the truth to deceive. Conscious Cogn 2018; 65:141-151. [PMID: 30176515 DOI: 10.1016/j.concog.2018.07.015] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/26/2018] [Revised: 07/30/2018] [Accepted: 07/31/2018] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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Most researchers assume that deception involves a conflict between a predominant truth response and a deliberate deceptive response. Such a view is consistent with dual process theories that state that high-order cognition operates through fast-automatic processes that may conflict with slow-deliberate ones. In the present study, we tested whether one must inhibit the truth to deceive in light of inconsistent findings in the literature. One hundred and eighty-nine participants were tested across two Negative Priming paradigms that rest on the logic that the activation of a fast-automatic process will be hampered on a given display if it is inhibited on the previous display. Our findings suggest that truthful responses are predominant in healthy adults, which is why inhibitory control is required to activate a deliberate deceptive mode. We argue that the findings from deception studies could be best accounted for by dual process theories.
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- Ania Aïte
- Laboratory for the Psychology of Child Development and Education, CNRS Unit 8240, Paris, France; Paris Descartes University (USPC), Paris, France; University of Caen Normandy, Caen, France.
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- Laboratory for the Psychology of Child Development and Education, CNRS Unit 8240, Paris, France; Paris Descartes University (USPC), Paris, France; University of Caen Normandy, Caen, France; Institut Universitaire de France (IUF), Paris, France
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- Laboratory for the Psychology of Child Development and Education, CNRS Unit 8240, Paris, France; Paris Descartes University (USPC), Paris, France; University of Caen Normandy, Caen, France; Institut Universitaire de France (IUF), Paris, France
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Li F, Zhu H, Xu J, Gao Q, Guo H, Wu S, Li X, He S. Lie Detection Using fNIRS Monitoring of Inhibition-Related Brain Regions Discriminates Infrequent but not Frequent Liars. Front Hum Neurosci 2018; 12:71. [PMID: 29593514 PMCID: PMC5859104 DOI: 10.3389/fnhum.2018.00071] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/17/2017] [Accepted: 02/08/2018] [Indexed: 11/24/2022] Open
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Functional near-infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS) was used to test whether monitoring inhibition-related brain regions is a feasible method for detecting both infrequent liars and frequent liars. Thirty-two participants were divided into two groups: the deceptive group (liars) and the non-deceptive group (ND group, innocents). All the participants were required to undergo a simulated interrogation by a computer. The participants from the deceptive group were instructed to tell a mix of lies and truths and those of the ND group were instructed always to tell the truth. Based on the number of deceptions, the participants of the deceptive group were further divided into a infrequently deceptive group (IFD group, infrequent liars) and a frequently deceptive group (FD group, frequent liars). The infrequent liars exhibited greater neural activities than the frequent liars and the innocents in the left middle frontal gyrus (MFG) when performing the deception detection tasks. While performing deception detection tasks, infrequent liars showed significantly greater neural activation in the left MFG than the baseline, but frequent liars and innocents did not exhibit this pattern of neural activation in any area of inhibition-related brain regions. The results of individual analysis showed an acceptable accuracy of detecting infrequent liars, but an unacceptable accuracy of detecting frequent liars. These results suggest that using fNIRS monitoring of inhibition-related brain regions is feasible for detecting infrequent liars, for whom deception may be more effortful and therefore more physiologically marked, but not frequent liars.
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- Fang Li
- Centre for Optical and Electromagnetic Research, South China Academy of Advanced Optoelectronics, South China Normal University (SCNU), Guangzhou, China.,College of Teacher Education and Psychology, Sichuan Normal University, Chengdu, China.,School of Psychology, South China Normal University (SCNU), Guangzhou, China
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- Centre for Optical and Electromagnetic Research, South China Academy of Advanced Optoelectronics, South China Normal University (SCNU), Guangzhou, China
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- Centre for Optical and Electromagnetic Research, South China Academy of Advanced Optoelectronics, South China Normal University (SCNU), Guangzhou, China
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- Guangdong Dance and Drama College, Foshan, China
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- School of Psychology, South China Normal University (SCNU), Guangzhou, China
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- Centre for Optical and Electromagnetic Research, South China Academy of Advanced Optoelectronics, South China Normal University (SCNU), Guangzhou, China
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- Centre for Optical and Electromagnetic Research, South China Academy of Advanced Optoelectronics, South China Normal University (SCNU), Guangzhou, China.,School of Psychology, South China Normal University (SCNU), Guangzhou, China
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- Centre for Optical and Electromagnetic Research, South China Academy of Advanced Optoelectronics, South China Normal University (SCNU), Guangzhou, China.,Department of Electromagnetic Engineering, Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden
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Suchotzki K, Kakavand A, Gamer M. Validity of the Reaction Time Concealed Information Test in a Prison Sample. Front Psychiatry 2018; 9:745. [PMID: 30728785 PMCID: PMC6351463 DOI: 10.3389/fpsyt.2018.00745] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/30/2018] [Accepted: 12/17/2018] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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Detecting whether a suspect possesses incriminating (e.g., crime-related) information can provide valuable decision aids in court. To this means, the Concealed Information Test (CIT) has been developed and is currently applied on a regular basis in Japan. But whereas research has revealed a high validity of the CIT in student and normal populations, research investigating its validity in forensic samples in scarce. This applies even more to the reaction time-based CIT (RT-CIT), where no such research is available so far. The current study tested the application of the RT-CIT for an imaginary mock crime scenario both in a sample of prisoners (n = 27) and a matched control group (n = 25). Results revealed a high validity of the RT-CIT for discriminating between crime-related and crime-unrelated information, visible in medium to very high effect sizes for error rates and reaction times. Interestingly, in accordance with theories that criminal offenders may have worse response inhibition capacities and that response inhibition plays a crucial role in the RT-CIT, CIT-effects in the error rates were even elevated in the prisoners compared to the control group. No support for this hypothesis could, however, be found in reaction time CIT-effects. Also, performance in a standard Stroop task, that was conducted to measure executive functioning, did not differ between both groups and no correlation was found between Stroop task performance and performance in the RT-CIT. Despite frequently raised concerns that the RT-CIT may not be applicable in non-student and forensic populations, our results thereby do suggest that such a use may be possible and that effects seem to be quite large. Future research should build up on these findings by increasing the realism of the crime and interrogation situation and by further investigating the replicability and the theoretical substantiation of increased effects in non-student and forensic samples.
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- Department of Psychology, University of Würzburg, Würzburg, Germany
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- Department of Psychology, University of Würzburg, Würzburg, Germany
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Kireev M, Korotkov A, Medvedeva N, Masharipov R, Medvedev S. Deceptive but Not Honest Manipulative Actions Are Associated with Increased Interaction between Middle and Inferior Frontal gyri. Front Neurosci 2017; 11:482. [PMID: 28912675 PMCID: PMC5583606 DOI: 10.3389/fnins.2017.00482] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/21/2016] [Accepted: 08/14/2017] [Indexed: 01/25/2023] Open
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The prefrontal cortex is believed to be responsible for execution of deceptive behavior and its involvement is associated with greater cognitive efforts. It is also generally assumed that deception is associated with the inhibition of default honest actions. However, the precise neurophysiological mechanisms underlying this process remain largely unknown. The present study was aimed to use functional magnetic resonance imaging to reveal the underlying functional integration within the prefrontal cortex during the task which requires that subjects to deliberately mislead an opponent through the sequential execution of deceptive and honest claims. To address this issue, we performed psychophysiological interaction (PPI) analysis, which allows for statistical assessment of changes in functional relationships between active brain areas in changing psychological contexts. As a result the whole brain PPI-analysis established that both manipulative honest and deceptive claiming were associated with an increase in connectivity between the left middle frontal gyrus and right temporo-parietal junction (rTPJ). Taking into account the role played by rTPJ in processes associated with the theory of mind the revealed data can reflect possible influence of socio-cognitive context on the process of selecting manipulative claiming regardless their honest or deceptive nature. Direct comparison between deceptive and honest claims revealed pattern enhancement of coupling between the left middle frontal gyrus and the left inferior frontal gyrus. This finding provided evidence that the execution of deception relies to a greater extent on higher-order hierarchically-organized brain mechanisms of executive control required to select between two competing deceptive or honest task sets.
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- Maxim Kireev
- N.P. Bechtereva Institute of the Human Brain, Russian Academy of SciencesSt. Petersburg, Russia
- Faculty of Liberal Arts and Sciences, St. Petersburg State UniversitySt. Petersburg, Russia
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- N.P. Bechtereva Institute of the Human Brain, Russian Academy of SciencesSt. Petersburg, Russia
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- N.P. Bechtereva Institute of the Human Brain, Russian Academy of SciencesSt. Petersburg, Russia
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- N.P. Bechtereva Institute of the Human Brain, Russian Academy of SciencesSt. Petersburg, Russia
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- N.P. Bechtereva Institute of the Human Brain, Russian Academy of SciencesSt. Petersburg, Russia
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Meijer EH, Verschuere B, Gamer M, Merckelbach H, Ben-Shakhar G. Deception detection with behavioral, autonomic, and neural measures: Conceptual and methodological considerations that warrant modesty. Psychophysiology 2016; 53:593-604. [DOI: 10.1111/psyp.12609] [Citation(s) in RCA: 41] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/08/2015] [Accepted: 12/18/2015] [Indexed: 10/22/2022]
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- Ewout H. Meijer
- Department of Clinical Psychological Science; Maastricht University; Maastricht The Netherlands
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- Department of Clinical Psychological Science; Maastricht University; Maastricht The Netherlands
- Department of Clinical Psychology; University of Amsterdam; Amsterdam The Netherlands
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- Department of Psychology; University of Würzburg; Würzburg Germany
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- Department of Clinical Psychological Science; Maastricht University; Maastricht The Netherlands
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Falkiewicz M, Sarzyńska J, Babula J, Szatkowska I, Grabowska A, Nęcka E. Explicit Instructions Increase Cognitive Costs of Deception in Predictable Social Context. Front Psychol 2015; 6:1863. [PMID: 26696929 PMCID: PMC4678380 DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2015.01863] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/28/2015] [Accepted: 11/17/2015] [Indexed: 11/29/2022] Open
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Convincing participants to deceive remains one of the biggest and most important challenges of laboratory-based deception research. The simplest and most prevalent method involves explicitly instructing participants to lie or tell the truth before presenting each task item. The usual finding of such experiments is increased cognitive load associated with deceptive responses, explained by necessity to inhibit default and automatic honest responses. However, explicit instructions are usually coupled with the absence of social context in the experimental task. Context plays a key role in social cognition by activating prior knowledge, which facilitates behaviors consistent with the latter. We hypothesized that in the presence of social context, both honest and deceptive responses can be produced on the basis of prior knowledge, without reliance on truth and without additional cognitive load during deceptive responses. In order to test the hypothesis, we have developed Speed-Dating Task (SDT), which is based on a real-life social event. In SDT, participants respond both honestly and deceptively to questions in order to appear similar to each of the dates. The dates are predictable and represent well-known categories (i.e., atheist or conservative). In one condition participants rely on explicit instructions preceding each question (external cue). In the second condition no explicit instructions are present, so the participants need to adapt based on prior knowledge about the category the dates belong to (internal cue). With internal cues, reaction times (RTs) are similar for both honest and deceptive responses. However, in the presence of external cues (EC), RTs are longer for deceptive than honest responses, suggesting that deceptive responses are associated with increased cognitive load. Compared to internal cues, deception costs were higher when EC were present. However, the effect was limited to the first part of the experiment, only partially confirming our initial hypothesis. The results suggest that the presence of social context in deception tasks might have a significant influence on cognitive processes associated with deception.
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- Marcel Falkiewicz
- Departament of Neurophysiology, Nencki Institute of Experimental Biology, Warsaw, Poland
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- University of Social Sciences and Humanities, Warsaw, Poland
- Jagiellonian University, Cracow, Poland
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- University of Social Sciences and Humanities, Warsaw, Poland
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- Departament of Neurophysiology, Nencki Institute of Experimental Biology, Warsaw, Poland
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- Departament of Neurophysiology, Nencki Institute of Experimental Biology, Warsaw, Poland
- University of Social Sciences and Humanities, Warsaw, Poland
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- University of Social Sciences and Humanities, Warsaw, Poland
- Jagiellonian University, Cracow, Poland
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Debey E, Ridderinkhof RK, De Houwer J, De Schryver M, Verschuere B. Suppressing the truth as a mechanism of deception: Delta plots reveal the role of response inhibition in lying. Conscious Cogn 2015; 37:148-59. [PMID: 26397036 DOI: 10.1016/j.concog.2015.09.005] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/16/2014] [Revised: 08/26/2015] [Accepted: 09/09/2015] [Indexed: 11/27/2022]
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Li F, Zhu H, Gao Q, Xu G, Li X, Hu Z, He S. Using functional near-infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS) to detect the prefrontal cortical responses to deception under different motivations. BIOMEDICAL OPTICS EXPRESS 2015; 6:3503-3514. [PMID: 26417519 PMCID: PMC4574675 DOI: 10.1364/boe.6.003503] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/28/2015] [Revised: 08/03/2015] [Accepted: 08/11/2015] [Indexed: 06/05/2023]
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In this study, functional near-infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS) was adopted to investigate the prefrontal cortical responses to deception under different motivations. By using a feigned memory impairment paradigm, 19 healthy adults were asked to deceive under the two different motivations: to obtain rewards and to avoid punishments. Results indicated that when deceiving for obtaining rewards, there was greater neural activation in the right inferior frontal gyrus (IFG) than the control condition. When deceiving for avoiding punishments, there was greater activation in the right inferior frontal gyrus (IFG) and the left middle frontal gyrus (MFG) than the control condition. In addition, deceiving for avoiding punishments led to greater neural activation in the left MFG than when deceiving for obtaining rewards. Furthermore, the results showed a moderate hit rate in detecting deception under either motivation. These results demonstrated that deception with different motivations led to distinct responses in the prefrontal cortex. fNIRS could provide a useful technique for the detection of deception with strategy of feigning memory impairment under different motivations.
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- Fang Li
- School of Psychology, South China Normal University (SCNU), Guangzhou 510631, China
- Centre for Optical and Electromagnetic Research, ZJU-SCNU Joint Research Center of Photonics, South China Normal University (SCNU), Guangzhou, 510006, China
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- Centre for Optical and Electromagnetic Research, ZJU-SCNU Joint Research Center of Photonics, South China Normal University (SCNU), Guangzhou, 510006, China
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- School of Psychology, South China Normal University (SCNU), Guangzhou 510631, China
- Centre for Optical and Electromagnetic Research, ZJU-SCNU Joint Research Center of Photonics, South China Normal University (SCNU), Guangzhou, 510006, China
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- Centre for Optical and Electromagnetic Research, ZJU-SCNU Joint Research Center of Photonics, South China Normal University (SCNU), Guangzhou, 510006, China
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- School of Psychology, South China Normal University (SCNU), Guangzhou 510631, China
- Centre for Optical and Electromagnetic Research, ZJU-SCNU Joint Research Center of Photonics, South China Normal University (SCNU), Guangzhou, 510006, China
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- School of Psychology, South China Normal University (SCNU), Guangzhou 510631, China
- Centre for Optical and Electromagnetic Research, ZJU-SCNU Joint Research Center of Photonics, South China Normal University (SCNU), Guangzhou, 510006, China
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- Centre for Optical and Electromagnetic Research, ZJU-SCNU Joint Research Center of Photonics, South China Normal University (SCNU), Guangzhou, 510006, China
- Department of Electromagnetic Engineering, Royal Institute of Technology, 10044 Stockholm, Sweden
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Wischnewski M, Schutter DJLG. Efficacy and Time Course of Theta Burst Stimulation in Healthy Humans. Brain Stimul 2015; 8:685-92. [PMID: 26014214 DOI: 10.1016/j.brs.2015.03.004] [Citation(s) in RCA: 180] [Impact Index Per Article: 20.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/11/2014] [Revised: 03/12/2015] [Accepted: 03/20/2015] [Indexed: 12/13/2022] Open
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BACKGROUND In the past decade research has shown that continuous (cTBS) and intermittent theta burst stimulation (iTBS) alter neuronal excitability levels in the primary motor cortex. OBJECTIVE Quantitatively review the magnitude and time course on cortical excitability of cTBS and iTBS. METHODS Sixty-four TBS studies published between January 2005 and October 2014 were retrieved from the scientific search engine PubMED and included for analyses. The main inclusion criteria involved stimulation of the primary motor cortex in healthy volunteers with no motor practice prior to intervention and motor evoked potentials as primary outcome measure. RESULTS ITBS applied for 190 s significantly increases cortical excitability up to 60 min with a mean maximum potentiation of 35.54 ± 3.32%. CTBS applied for 40 s decreases cortical excitability up to 50 min with a mean maximum depression of -22.81 ± 2.86%, while cTBS applied for 20 s decreases cortical excitability (mean maximum -27.84 ± 4.15%) for 20 min. CONCLUSION The present findings offer normative insights into the magnitude and time course of TBS-induced changes in cortical excitability levels.
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- Miles Wischnewski
- Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour, Radboud University Nijmegen, the Netherlands.
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- Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour, Radboud University Nijmegen, the Netherlands
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Suchotzki K, Crombez G, Smulders FT, Meijer E, Verschuere B. The cognitive mechanisms underlying deception: An event-related potential study. Int J Psychophysiol 2015; 95:395-405. [DOI: 10.1016/j.ijpsycho.2015.01.010] [Citation(s) in RCA: 33] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/27/2014] [Revised: 12/30/2014] [Accepted: 01/28/2015] [Indexed: 10/24/2022]
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Karton I, Rinne JM, Bachmann T. Facilitating the right but not left DLPFC by TMS decreases truthfulness of object-naming responses. Behav Brain Res 2014; 271:89-93. [PMID: 24906194 DOI: 10.1016/j.bbr.2014.05.059] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/07/2014] [Revised: 05/22/2014] [Accepted: 05/27/2014] [Indexed: 10/25/2022]
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Dorsolateral prefrontal cortex (DLPFC) participates in many mental functions involving cognitive control. This also applies to processes underlying deception. Recently it was shown that, compared to the opposite effect found with left-hemisphere 1-Hz repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation of the DLPFC, right-hemisphere stimulation decreased the propensity to produce untruthful responses in a subsequent task where subjects had freedom to name presented stimulus-objects either veridically or nonveridically. In a similar experiment, the purpose of the present study was to test whether changing the rTMS protocol from the disrupting to facilitatory type can lead to opposite results. When trains of 10-Hz pulses were delivered to the right DLPFC, propensity to lie increased while similar left-hemisphere DLPFC stimulation did not change the rate of untruthful responses. We can conclude that the way how right DLPFC and other areas functionally associated with it are involved in producing truthful or deliberately deceptive statements about perceived objects considerably depends on what are the parameters of stimulation by which functionality of this system is manipulated.
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Affiliation(s)
- Inga Karton
- University of Tartu, Institute of Psychology, Näituse 2, Tartu 50409, Estonia; University of Tartu (Tallinn Branch), Institute of Public Law, Kaarli Puiestee 3, Tallinn 10119, Estonia
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- University of Tartu (Tallinn Branch), Institute of Public Law, Kaarli Puiestee 3, Tallinn 10119, Estonia
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- University of Tartu (Tallinn Branch), Institute of Public Law, Kaarli Puiestee 3, Tallinn 10119, Estonia.
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- Matthias Gamer
- Department of Systems Neuroscience, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf Hamburg, Germany
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- Institute for Frontier Areas of Psychology and Mental Health Freiburg, Germany
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Vartanian O, Kwantes PJ, Mandel DR, Bouak F, Nakashima A, Smith I, Lam Q. Right inferior frontal gyrus activation as a neural marker of successful lying. Front Hum Neurosci 2013; 7:616. [PMID: 24106468 PMCID: PMC3789213 DOI: 10.3389/fnhum.2013.00616] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/22/2013] [Accepted: 09/07/2013] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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There is evidence to suggest that successful lying necessitates cognitive effort. We tested this hypothesis by instructing participants to lie or tell the truth under conditions of high and low working memory (WM) load. The task required participants to register a response on 80 trials of identical structure within a 2 (WM Load: high, low) × 2 (Instruction: truth or lie) repeated-measures design. Participants were less accurate and responded more slowly when WM load was high, and also when they lied. High WM load activated the fronto-parietal WM network including dorsolateral prefrontal cortex (PFC), middle frontal gyrus, precuneus, and intraparietal cortex. Lying activated areas previously shown to underlie deception, including middle and superior frontal gyrus and precuneus. Critically, successful lying in the high vs. low WM load condition was associated with longer response latency, and it activated the right inferior frontal gyrus—a key brain region regulating inhibition. The same pattern of activation in the inferior frontal gyrus was absent when participants told the truth. These findings demonstrate that lying under high cognitive load places a burden on inhibition, and that the right inferior frontal gyrus may provide a neural marker for successful lying.
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- Oshin Vartanian
- Defence Research and Development Canada Toronto, ON, Canada ; Department of Psychology, University of Toronto-Scarborough Toronto, ON, Canada
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Suchotzki K, Verschuere B, Crombez G, De Houwer J. Reaction time measures in deception research: comparing the effects of irrelevant and relevant stimulus-response compatibility. Acta Psychol (Amst) 2013; 144:224-31. [PMID: 23920404 DOI: 10.1016/j.actpsy.2013.06.014] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/12/2012] [Revised: 06/17/2013] [Accepted: 06/20/2013] [Indexed: 10/26/2022] Open
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Evidence regarding the validity of reaction time (RT) measures in deception research is mixed. One possible reason for this inconsistency is that structurally different RT paradigms have been used. The aim of this study was to experimentally investigate whether structural differences between RT tasks are related to how effective those tasks are for capturing deception. We achieved this aim by comparing the effectiveness of relevant and irrelevant stimulus-response compatibility (SRC) tasks. We also investigated whether an intended but not yet completed mock crime could be assessed with both tasks. Results showed (1) a larger compatibility effect in the relevant SRC task compared to the irrelevant SRC task, (2) for both the completed and the intended crime. These results were replicated in a second experiment in which a semantic feature (instead of color) was used as critical response feature in the irrelevant SRC task. The findings support the idea that a structural analysis of deception tasks helps to identify RT measures that produce robust group effects, and that strong compatibility effects for both enacted crimes as well as merely intended crimes can be found with RT measures that are based on the manipulation of relevant SRC.
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