Upcoming Webinar
Friday, 26th May
10 am EDT / 7 am Pacific / 4 pm CET / 7:30 pm India
Karnig Kazazian (Western University, Canada & Massachusetts General Hospital, USA)
fNIRS: a novel tool for detecting consciousness in the intensive care unit.
Zoom link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81812324618
Interested in giving a talk?
The research webinars are an initiative organized by the Educational Committee of the Society for Functional Near-Infrared Spectroscopy. It is an opportunity for early-career scientists to present and discuss their work with their peers and senior attendees in a friendly environment. f you want to participate, send an email to Rickson Mesquita.
Past webinars
Below you will find a list of past ones. Additional content may be available for members, only. If you have a member account, please log in.
Friday, 24th June
11 am EDT / 8 am Pacific / 5 pm CET / 8:30 pm India
Bradley White (Gallaudet University, USA)
Neuroplasticity in deafness: new insight from fNIRS and more.
Friday, 27th May
9 am EDT / 3 pm CET / 6:30 pm IST / 9 pm Beijing
Mehrin Kiani (University of Essex, UK)
Effective connectivity for fNIRS using fuzzy cognitive maps.
Friday, 29th Apr
3 pm South Africa / 9 am EST / 3 pm CET / 6:30 pm IST
Candida Barreto, Hanrie Bezuidenhout, and Kathleen Fonseca (University of Johannesburg, South Africa)
fNIRS in educational research: challenges and perspectives of the first studies in South Africa.
Friday, 25th Mar
10 am EST / 3 pm CET / 7:30 pm India Standard Time
Sara Sanchez-Alonso (Haskin Laboratories, USA)
Characterizing brain function via a simultaneous fMRI-fNIRS study.
Friday, 3rd Dec
10 am EST / 4 pm CET / 11 pm China Standard Time
Paul Lee (Kennesaw State University, USA)
Near-infrared diffuse optical spectroscopies for quantification of the cerebral hemometabolic response to blood transfusion in pediatric sickle cell disease.
Friday, 29th Oct
Cancelled due to vfNIRS 2021.
Friday, 24th Sep
3 pm UK time / 10 am EDT / 7 pm India Standard Time
Ernesto Vidal Rosas (University College London, UK)
Recent progress on the dual-task cost of texting while walking using wearable high-density diffuse optical tomography (HD-DOT).
Friday, 27th Aug
9 am EDT / 3 pm CET / 9 pm China
Lin Wang (University of Pennsylvania, USA)
Optical monitoring human placental oxygenation in vivo.
Friday, 30th Jul
6 pm Pakistan / 9 am EDT / 3 pm CET
Hammad N. Gilani (Air University, Pakistan)
Enhancing classification accuracy of fNIRS-BCI systems.
Friday, 25th Jun
4 pm UK / 11 am EDT / 11 pm CST Asia
Abigail Fiske (University of Oxford, UK)
The neural correlates of response inhibition in 10-month-old infants: a fNIRS study.
Friday, 28th May
10 am EST / 3 pm CET
Samuel Antonio Montero-Hernández (University of Houston, USA)
Discovering fNIRS Brain Connectivity through Probabilistic Graphical Models.
Friday, 30th April
6:30 pm IST / 9 am EDT
Harleen Chhabra (National Institute of Mental Health and Neurosciences, India)
Effect of high definition tDCS on resting-state functional connectivity in schizophrenia patients with persistent auditory verbal hallucinations: A functional Near-Infrared Spectroscopy study.
Friday, 26th March
2 pm CEST / 9 am EDT / 10 pm JST
Satoshi Morimoto (Keio University Global Research Institute, Japan)
fNIRS hyperscanning data analysis based on social-signal response model.
Friday, 26th February
3 pm Central European Summer Time (CEST)
Hamoon Zohdi (University of Bern, Switzerland)
Effects of exposure to colored light on cerebral and systemic physiology in humans.
Friday, 29th January
3 pm Central European Summer Time (CEST)
Sergio Novi (University of Campinas, Brazil)
Advances and pitfalls on inferring neuroplasticity with fNIRS: from infants to adults.
Friday, 18th December
3 pm Central European Summer Time (CEST)
Androu Abdalmalak ((University of Western Ontario, Canada)
Detecting command-driven brain activity in patients with disorders of consciousness using TR-fNIRS.
Friday, 27th November
3 pm Central European Summer Time (CEST)
Jonas Fischer (ICFO – The Institute of Photonic Sciences, Spain)
Neural networks and diffuse correlation spectroscopy for non-invasive estimation of intracranial pressure
Friday, 30th October
3 pm Central European Summer Time (CEST)
David Rosenbaum (University of Tübingen, Germany)
fNIRS in psychotherapeutic settings (provocation designs and in situ measurements).
Friday, 25th September
3 pm Central European Summer Time (CEST)
Sarah Rösch (Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences, Leipzig, Germany)
An analysis of the neural and cognitive mechanisms underlying fNIRS-based neurofeedback of the prefrontal cortex for binge-eating disorder.
Friday, 28th August
3 pm Central European Summer Time (CEST)
Mario Forcione (University Hospitals Birmingham, Birmingham, UK)
Cerebral perfusion and blood-brain barrier assessment: how contrast-enhanced near-infrared spectroscopy with indocyanine green can answer some of the clinical challenges in brain trauma.