Using Fiberless, Wearable fNIRS to Monitor Brain Activity in Real-world Cognitive TasksPaola Pinti 1,2, Clarisse Aichelburg 3, Frida Lind 3, Sarah Power 1, Elizabeth Swingler 3, Arcangelo Merla 2, Antonia Hamilton 3, Sam Gilbert 3, Paul Burgess 3, Ilias Tachtsidis 1
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
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.
