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fNIRS Analysis

Functional Near-Infrared Spectroscopy (fNIRS) is an optical neuroimaging method that measures changes in cerebral blood oxygenation non-invasively from the scalp. Developed by Britton Chance and colleagues in the 1990s, fNIRS combines the portability and cost-effectiveness of EEG with the spatial localization advantage of fMRI, enabling brain activity measurement in naturalistic settings.

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Functional Near-Infrared Spectroscopy (fNIRS) Analysis
Taxonomic method record · process-pipeline / neuroimaging
  • Villringer, A., & Dirnagl, U. (1995). Coupling of brain activity and cerebral blood flow: basis of functional neuroimaging. Cerebrovascular and Cerebral Blood Flow Metabolism, 4, 3–22. · URL
  • Kop, B. R., Ascoli, G. A., & Ances, B. M. (2014). fNIRS imaging of the prefrontal cortex during a language task. Neuroimage, 102, 844–852. · URL
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