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Brain And Law: An Eeg Study Of How We Decide Or Not To Implement A Law, Armando Rocha, Eduardo Massad, Fábio Rocha, Marcelo Buratini

Armando F Rocha

Brazil has introduced a referendum regarding the prohibition of firearm commerce and propaganda arguments has invoked socially and personally driven issues in the promotion of voting in favor of and against firearm control, respectively. Here, we used different techniques to study the brain activity associated with a voter’s perception of the truthfulness of these arguments and their influence on voting decisions. Low Resolution Tomography was used to identify the possible different sets of neurons activated in the analysis of the different types of propaganda. Linear correlation was used to calculate the amount information provided by different electrodes about how these …