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Interview with Drs. Chenbo Wang and Xianchun Li

A group of scientists in East China Normal University has published a paper earlier this month titled “Dynamic interpersonal neural synchronization underlying pain-induced cooperation in females” in HBM. They studied how pain affected coo
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6 experiments you should do with NIRS (vs fMRI)

Let’s be frank. Compared to fMRI, NIRS has a number of intrinsic weaknesses. The signal to noise ratio is lower, the spatial resolution is (10x) lower, it can’t measure the deep brain, and it only covers a portio
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fNIRS中基线的做法和注意事项 (Baseline in fNIRS)

This article is a guest post by Rui Chen. An English version can be downloaded here 对于信号的分析,不论是脑电的数据
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BOLD5000, A public fMRI dataset of 5000 images

Official website and download Full text paper link Good news for brain imaging researchers. There is a new dataset available for you to play with. BOLD5000 is a large-scale, slow event-related fMRI dataset collected on 4 subjects, each observing 5,25
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Google Dataset search, a great tool for fNIRS and…

Google just launched a new search engine: Google Dataset search. With this app, scientists can search public datasets published in scientific journals (and possibly other sources). According to Google, “Dataset Search enables users to find data
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fNIRS 2018

fNIRS 2010 conference will be held during October 5-8, 2018 in Tokyo, Japan. You may find more information at http://fnirs2018.org/. The early registration deadline is 2018-09-05.
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Temporal resolution of CW fNIRS devices

This is a guest post by Ning Liu from Stanford University. Temporal resolution provides information on the distance of time between the acquisitions of two images (data) of the same area. It is the reciprocal of sampling rate (or acquisition rate) of
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To beginner: task-based fNIRS study design (2)

This is a guest post by Ning Liu from Stanford University. – A basic block design includes two conditions: task condition and control condition. The two conditions present alternatively, thus is also called ‘AB block’ (Fig. 1A). This design assumes t
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浅谈近红外脑成像(fNIRS)任务态实验设计(二)

本文作者是斯坦福大学刘宁 传统的组块设计(block design)通常包括两种组块: 任务组块和控制组块,又被称为“AB block”设计(如图1A)。这种设计基于一个假设: 两种组块条件下的意识态
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