Upcoming Webinar
Friday, 8 December 2023
10 pm Japan / 2 pm CET / 8:00 am EST
Kiyomitsu Niioka (University of Human Environments, Japan)
Multimodal Measurement of Cerebral Hemodynamic and Autonomic Responses – New Developments in Concealed Information Testing in Japanese Criminal
Zoom link: available soon
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.
29 September 2023
10 am EDT / 7 am Pacific / 4 pm CET / 7:30 pm India
Caroline Nallet & Gaia Lucarini (University of Padua, Italy)
Rhythmic discrimination of languages in infants with hearing loss.
23 June 2023
10 am EDT / 7 am Pacific / 4 pm CET / 7:30 pm India
Irene de la Cruz-Pavía (Deusto University & Basque Foundation for Science Ikerbasque, Bilbao, Spain)
Tracing infants’ earliest encoding of structural regularities in speech.
26 May 2023
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.
24 June 2022
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.
27 May 2022
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.
29 Apr 2022
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.
25 Mar 2022
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.
3 Dec 2021
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.
24 Sep 2021
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).
27 Aug 2021
9 am EDT / 3 pm CET / 9 pm China
Lin Wang (University of Pennsylvania, USA)
Optical monitoring human placental oxygenation in vivo.
30 Jul 2021
6 pm Pakistan / 9 am EDT / 3 pm CET
Hammad N. Gilani (Air University, Pakistan)
Enhancing classification accuracy of fNIRS-BCI systems.
25 Jun 2021
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.
28 May 2021
10 am EST / 3 pm CET
Samuel Antonio Montero-Hernández (University of Houston, USA)
Discovering fNIRS Brain Connectivity through Probabilistic Graphical Models.
30 April 2021
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.
26 March 2021
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.
26 February 2021
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.
29 January 2021
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.
18 December 2020
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.
27 November 2020
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
30 October 2020
3 pm Central European Summer Time (CEST)
David Rosenbaum (University of Tübingen, Germany)
fNIRS in psychotherapeutic settings (provocation designs and in situ measurements).
25 September 2020
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.
28 August 2020
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.