A COMPUTERIZED INSTRUMENT FOR FORENSIC CREDIBILITY ASSESSMENT: Initial Standardization and Test-Retest Findings

Abstract

A fully automated computerized instrument for forensic credibility assessment was field tested with one hundred and three experimental trials utilizing an experimental population of ninetyfour. One of the group participants thereafter participated in further test-retest experiments. A core digital brainwave signature enabling the affirmation of truth and falsehood was found to be held in common across the entire experimental population. While the aforementioned core brainwave signature was found to be extant and common across the test population, the testretest data found that an individual's core brainwave signature included additional idiosyncratic relational brainwave indices which served as robust indicators in the thirty-six test-retest experimental trials. The implications of these findings relative to credibility forensic assessments free of technician/examiner bias are discussed.