Using Fiberless, Wearable fNIRS to Monitor Brain Activity in Real-world Cognitive Tasks

Paola Pinti; Clarisse Aichelburg; Frida Lind; Sarah Power; Elizabeth Swingler; Arcangelo Merla; Antonia Hamilton; Sam Gilbert; Paul Burgess; Ilias Tachtsidis

doi:10.3791/53336

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Using Fiberless, Wearable fNIRS to Monitor Brain Activity in Real-world Cognitive Tasks

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Behavior

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JoVE Journal Behavior

Using Fiberless, Wearable fNIRS to Monitor Brain Activity in Real-world Cognitive Tasks

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10:07 min

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December 02, 2015

DOI:

10.3791/53336-v

DOI:

10.3791/53336-v

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December 02, 2015

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Paola Pinti^1,2, Clarisse Aichelburg³, Frida Lind³, Sarah Power¹, Elizabeth Swingler³, Arcangelo Merla², Antonia Hamilton³, Sam Gilbert³, Paul Burgess³, Ilias Tachtsidis¹

¹Department of Medical Physics and Biomedical Engineering, Malet Place Engineering Building,University College London, ²Infrared Imaging Lab, Institute for Advanced Biomedical Technology (ITAB), Department of Neuroscience, Imaging and Clinical Sciences,University of Chieti-Pescara, ³Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, Alexandra House,University College London

Summary

Monitoring brain activity outside the lab without physical constraints presents methodological challenges. A fiberless, wearable functional Near Infrared Spectroscopy (fNIRS) system was used to measure brain activity during an ecological prospective memory task. It was demonstrated that this system could be used to monitor brain activity during non-lab based experiments.