Melissa M. Littlefield's research while affiliated with University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign and other places
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Publications (9)
Human electroencephalography (EEG) has become a mobile, extra-laboratory technology capable of collecting human brain signals while wearers are on the move. Many of the wearable EEG projects that artists, academics, and companies have undertaken are based around the idea that the technology will grant us ‘instrumental intimacy’, or better access to...
Mind reading is often characterized as a mechanism of surveillance that ferrets out information against our will; but it can also be collaborative, involving partnerships and networks. Indeed, researchers and artists have been using human electroencephalography (EEG), to produce aggregate data sets for the creation of musical symphonies, city plann...
"Truth" has been used as a baseline condition in several functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) studies of deception. However, like deception, telling the truth is an inherently social construct, which requires consideration of another person's mental state, a phenomenon known as Theory of Mind. Using a novel ecological paradigm, we examined...
This article is about a transdisciplinary project between the social, human and life sciences, and the felt experiences of the researchers involved. 'Transdisciplinary' and 'interdisciplinary' research-modes have been the subject of much attention lately--especially as they cross boundaries between the social/humanistic and natural sciences. Howeve...
Recent neuroscience initiatives (including the E.U.'s Human Brain Project and the U.S.'s BRAIN Initiative) have reinvigorated discussions about the possibilities for transdisciplinary collaboration between the neurosciences, the social sciences, and the humanities. As STS scholars have argued for decades, however, such inter- and transdisciplinary...
Over the past decade, CBS’s hit television show CSI: Crime Scene Investigation has been characterized as novel and innovative, as one of the first times forensic science was made palatable to a popular audience. Because of its subject matter and its popularity, the show has also sparked debates about the effects of scientific representations. In th...
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... In this approach individuals are attached to measurement systems which are aggregated to form a kind of human sensor network for data in the city (Littlefield, 2021). The differentiating factor between sentiment data and emotion data is the mode of data gathering. ...
... In extreme cases, sometimes called false memory syndrome, the persons afflicted by this disorder which is also called pathological lying, come to believe their own fictional constructions to the point that they at least intermittently, and possibly permanently, become unable to tell the difference between what really happened in the past and one or many lies they have invented (Dike, Baranoski, & Griffith, 2005;A. Ito et al., 2012;Abe, 2011;Abe et al., 2014;Littlefield, Dietz, Fitzgerald, Knudsen, & Tonks, 2015;Muzinic, Kozaric-Kovacic, & Marinic, 2016). The distinctive characteristic of the pathological liar -as contrasted with a person such as John Forbes Nash who experienced hallucinatory experiences -is that pathological liars never hallucinate in the present tense (as Nash did) but they become unable over time to distinguish TNRs representing genuine past experience from fictions they have invented about the past. ...
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... In addition, both disciplinary groups have to value this combination to make interdisciplinary learning successful [25]. Moreover, previous research suggests that an unwillingness to elucidate these differences contributes to a broader sense of reticence or reserve among students [44]. Hence, when the dialogue about these differences does not occur, differences will possibly become obstacles. ...
... This development was conducted without family permission and without any financial compensation. 9 Lastly, from 1973-1976, the US General Accounting Office study revealed illegal sterilization of thousands of Native American women without their consent. 10 While forcible sterilization meets the International Criminal Court's definition of genocide, many Americans still support sterilizing incarcerated women. ...
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... Ethnographic studies on interdisciplinary collaborations demonstrate that the capacity for generative critique is not simply present in research teams. It needs to be acquired in ongoing interactions between collaborators Callard and Margulies 2014;Fitzgerald et al. 2014a;Littlefield et al. 2014). For example, Fitzgerald et al. (2014a) conclude from their collaborative project on truth-telling and deception that the interaction between SSH scholars and neuroscientists was characterised by "unspoken tension and lurking resentment" (p. ...
... Yet, such impacts of media portrayals of (forensic and) police work are not new. Littlefield (2011) demonstrates very well how similar effects (educating perpetrators, causing misperceptions of police work etc.) were accredited to the early books on fictional police officers and detectives. Still, the combined strength and persuasiveness of the media content delivered via television, the sheer number of forensic and criminal investigative TV series and how they are designed can have a somewhat greater effect. ...
