Analysis of Lie detection and language comprehension

        This article is all about lie detection, like how liars may show different behavior and emotions, and how their lies can be detected. So, researchers conducted this experimental research study to detect lies from liars. But they came with a different idea that people who are not able to understand words named as aphasics; they can pick up lies better than anyone else. So, researchers wanted to test their lie-detecting capabilities in this research study. The patients selected for this study were those, who were suffering from severe deficits when it comes to comprehending spoken sentences, because the left cerebral hemisphere (LH) was damaged. The number of patients taken for this study was ten with left cerebral hemisphere (LH), ten patients were taken with right cerebral hemisphere (RH) damage, ten patients were healthy controls, and a number of undergraduates were 48, which were taken from Massachusetts Institute of Technology. A videotape was shown to participants of the study. The result taken from the study showed that the capability of aphasics was way better as compared to healthy controls in terms of detecting lies. The accuracy in detecting lies was better for aphasics as compared to all other participants. So, it was found through the experiment that the ability of aphasics was better in terms of detecting deceit behavior, which was based on lies. It may have happened because their problems with understanding words were maybe compensated by skills of recognizing and identifying non-verbal behavior better than others (Etcoff, Ekman, Magee, & Frank, 2000)

Bibliography of Lie detection and language comprehension

Etcoff, N. L., Ekman, P., Magee, J. J., & Frank, M. G. (2000). Lie detection and language comprehension. Nature , 405 (139).