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Responsible Brain-System Integration
The brain-technology frontier is enabled by neuroergonomists and allied professionals who have joined forces with neuroscientists, neuroengineers, signal and systems engineers to design, develop and deploy bra...
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Open AccessVisuospatial task-related prefrontal activity is correlated with negative symptoms in schizophrenia
Control of attention is thought to be specifically impaired in schizophrenia due to abnormal function in the prefrontal cortex (PFC). The PFC plays a critical role in the identification of relevant stimuli and...
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Neural Correlates of Math Anxiety of Consumer Choices on Price Promotions
Math anxiety is a problem that faces most people in their everyday life. Past research suggests that math anxiety can lead consumers to make errors in numerical computations. In this study, we utilized brain-b...
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Assessing Correlation Between Virtual Reality Based Serious Gaming Performance and Cognitive Workload Changes via Functional Near Infrared Spectroscopy
Serious game modules enhance knowledge and performance by offering participants to control the content and to arrange the suitable time for learning. Virtual Reality (VR)- based serious gaming modules are used...
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Open AccessMeasuring speaker–listener neural coupling with functional near infrared spectroscopy
The present study investigates brain-to-brain coupling, defined as inter-subject correlations in the hemodynamic response, during natural verbal communication. We used functional near-infrared spectroscopy (fN...
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Evaluating Neural Correlates of Constant-Therapy Neurorehabilitation Task Battery: An fNIRS Pilot Study
The development of cognitive task battery applications for rehabilitation in telemedicine is a rapidly evolving field, with several tablet or web based programs already hel** those suffering from working mem...
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Neural Adaptation to a Working Memory Task: A Concurrent EEG-fNIRS Study
Simultaneously recorded electroencephalography (EEG) and functional near infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS) measures from sixteen subjects were used to assess neural correlates of a letter based n-back working memo...
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UAV Operators Workload Assessment by Optical Brain Imaging Technology (fNIR)
The use of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) is expected to increase exponentially over the next few years. UAV ground operators are required to acquire skills quickly and completely, with a level of expertise t...
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Verbal working memory impairments following traumatic brain injury: an fNIRS investigation
The construct of working memory and its reliance on dorsolateral prefrontal cortex (DLPFC) have been the focus of many studies in healthy subjects and in clinical populations. However, transfer of knowledge ga...
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Towards a Hybrid P300-Based BCI Using Simultaneous fNIR and EEG
Next generation brain computer interfaces (BCI) are expected to provide robust and continuous control mechanism. In this study, we assessed integration of optical brain imaging (fNIR: functional near infrared ...
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Brain in the Loop Learning Using Functional Near Infrared Spectroscopy
The role of practice is crucial in the skill acquisition process and for assessments of learning. In this study, we used a portable neuroimaging technique, functional near infrared (fNIR) spectroscopy for moni...
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Human Performance Assessment Study in Aviation Using Functional Near Infrared Spectroscopy
Functional near infrared (fNIR) spectroscopy is a field-deployable optical neuroimaging technology that provides a measure of the prefrontal cortex’s cerebral hemodynamics in response to the completion of sens...
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Differential Prefrontal Response during Natural and Synthetic Speech Perception: An fNIR Based Neuroergonomics Study
Synthetic speech has a growing role in human computer interaction and automated systems with the emergence of ubiquitous computing such as smart phones, car multimedia control and navigation systems. Cognitive...
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Functional Near-Infrared Spectroscopy in Addiction Treatment: Preliminary Evidence as a Biomarker of Treatment Response
There is growing evidence that there are functional changes in the brains of individuals with substance use disorders. Numerous studies utilizing functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) have shown that dr...
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Effect of Body Position on NIRS Based Hemodynamic Measures from Prefrontal Cortex
This study focuses on the positional effects on hemodynamic changes monitored by the functional near infrared (fNIR) spectroscopy. The motivation behind this exploratory study is to provide a standard approach...
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Using Brain Activity to Predict Task Performance and Operator Efficiency
The efficiency and safety of many complex human-machine systems are closely related to the cognitive workload and situational awareness of their human operators. In this study, we utilized functional near infr...
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Treatment Status Predicts Differential Prefrontal Cortical Responses to Alcohol and Natural Reinforcer Cues among Alcohol Dependent Individuals
This study used functional near-infrared spectroscopy (fNIRs) to test the hypothesis that non-treatment seeking alcohol-dependent participants (NTSA) would show greater response in dorsolateral prefrontal cort...
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Applications of Functional Near Infrared Imaging: Case Study on UAV Ground Controller
Functional Near-Infrared (fNIR) spectroscopy is an emerging optical brain imaging technology that enables assessment of brain activity through the intact skull in human subjects. fNIR systems developed during ...
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Brain Activity of Young and Adult Hebrew Speakers during Lexical Decision Task: fNIR Application to Language
The process of reading activates a large-scale neural network which includes different cortical brain regions. This network is thought to be age-dependent and changes throughout the process of reading acquisit...
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Optical Brain Imaging to Enhance UAV Operator Training, Evaluation, and Interface Development
As the use of unmanned aerial vehicles expands to near earth applications and force multiplying scenarios, current methods of operating UAVs and evaluating pilot performance need to expand as well. Many human ...
