ALTERNATIVE VIEWS OF BASHORE AND RAPP (1993) ALTERNATIVES TO TRADITIONAL POLYGRAPHY - A CRITIQUE

Rosenfeld critiques an article on deception detection by T. T. Bashore and P. P. Rapp (1993) that appeared earlier in this journal. These au thors reviewed the field of traditional polygraphy, coming to the conc lusion that traditional autonomic nervous system (ANS) indices of psyc hological events thought to be directly or indirectly involved in dece ption-related processes have limitations that might not apply to the r epresentation of these processes in brain activity. Rosenfeld criticiz es what he sees as a relatively one-sided presentation of traditional ANS polygraphy by Bashore and Rapp. He also reconsiders Bashore and Ra pp's preference for brain activity indices over ANS indices in decepti on detection. Finally he attempts to correct Bashore and Rapp's inaccu rate and incomplete review of approaches to deception detection based on brain activity measures.