Dr. Arthur Lee

But I would say lying is particularly more difficult, even on top of that, because not only does it recruit multiple brain regions,

depending on the people and the context, which region gets recruited also changes, which makes this chasing like a very context dependent, very person dependent problem.

So, you know, in a related part of my research, which I haven't published yet, I've shown that people who are very good at lying and people who are very bad at lying have very different brain activities when they lie, which makes it, you know, very difficult for you to calibrate the one size fits all lie detector for everyone.

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