Brain fingerprinting

Brain fingerprinting is a forensic science technique that uses electroencephalography (EEG) to determine whether specific information is stored in a subject's brain. It consists of measuring and recording a person's electrical brainwaves and brain response known as P300-MERMER ("Memory and Encoding Related Multifaceted Electroencephalographic Response") after the subject is exposed to words, phrases, or pictures on a computer screen. (Encyclopedia of Forensic Science 2014, Farwell & Smith 2001, Farwell, Richardson, and Richardson 2013).