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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.

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