Program
Due to the end of British Summer Time, the clocks go back 1 hour at 2am on Sunday 28th October
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Friday 26th October |
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| 2:00pm | REGISTRATION OPENS | North Cloisters | |
| 5:15pm | WELCOME AND INTRODUCTION OF SPONSORS | Clare Elwell | Cruciform Lecture Theatre |
| 5:30pm | KEYNOTE TALK: Trends in Functional Near Infrared Spectroscopy | David Boas | Cruciform Lecture Theatre |
| 6:30pm | WELCOME RECEPTION | North Cloisters | |
Saturday 27th October |
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| HARDWARE DEVELOPMENTS | Cruciform Lecture Theatre | ||
| 8:00 - 8:30am | INVITED TALK: Ischemic stroke & hybrid diffuse optics combining diffuse correlation spectroscopy (DCS) and diffuse optical spectroscopy (DOS-NIRS) | Turgut Durduran | |
| 8:30 - 8:45am | Time resolved functional near infrared spectroscopy by means of time gated system at small interfiber distance | Davide Contini | |
| 8:45 - 9:00am | Imaging multiple functional networks with diffuse optical tomography | Adam T. Eggebrecht | |
| MULTI-MODAL MONITORING | Cruciform Lecture Theatre | ||
| 9:00 - 9:30am | INVITED TALK: False Positives in fNIRS: Identifying and Quantifying Systemic Influences on Neurovascular Coupling in fNIRS Data during Cognitive Tasks. | Ilias Tachtsidis | |
| 9:30 - 9:45am | Neurovascular Coupling Varies with Level of Global Cerebral Ischemia in a Rat Model | Wesley B. Baker | |
| 9:45 - 10:00am | Impact of Extracranial Vessels on Task-Evoked Artefacts in Functional Near Infrared Spectroscopy for Multiple Tasks | Evgeniya Kirilina | |
| 10:00 - 10:45am | COFFEE | North Cloisters | |
| DATA ANALYSIS | Cruciform Lecture Theatre | ||
| 10:45 - 11:15am | INVITED TALK: Methodological challenges in the application of fNIRS for infant cognitive neuroscience | Emmanuel Du Poux | |
| 11:15 - 11:30am | Low frequency oscillations measured in the periphery with near infrared spectroscopy (NIRS) are strongly correlated with blood oxygen level-dependent functional magnetic resonance imaging (BOLD fMRI) signals | Yunjie Tong | |
| 11:30 - 11:45am | Integrated Data Analysis Environment for fNIRS | Takusige Katura | |
| 11:45 - 12:00pm | Is it possible to extract cortical depth information from traditionally 2D optical imaging spectroscopy using concurrent fMRI data? | A.J. Kennerley | |
| 12:00 - 12:15pm | Non-contact photogrammetric spatial registration system for fNIRS featuring color-coded markers | Daisuke Tsuzuki | |
| 12:15 - 12:30pm | Functional Connectivity of the PFC via Partial Correlation Analysis | Z. Einalou | |
| 12:30 - 12:45pm | Hierarchical Bayesian estimation with ARD prior improves depth accuracy and spatial resolution of diffuse optical tomography | Takeaki Shimokawa Takashi Amita, Yoshihiro Inoue, and Masa-aki Sato |
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| 12:45 - 1:45pm | LUNCH | North Cloisters | |
| NEURODEVELOPMENT (I) | Cruciform Lecture Theatre | ||
| 1:45 - 2:15pm | INVITED TALK: A cognitive neuroscience approach to the early identification of autism | Charles Nelson | |
| 2:15 - 2:30pm | Evoked changes in oxygen consumption in premature neonates | Nadege Roche-Labarbe | |
| 2:30 - 2:45pm | Building from Basics: fNIRS recordings from 6-month olds investigate sensory cortex selectivity and response suppression | Lauren L. Emberson | |
| 2:45 - 3:00 | The specificity of the neural response to language at birth | Lillian May | |
| 3:00 - 5:00pm | TEA AND POSTER VIEWING | North Cloisters and Old Refectory | |
| NEURODEVELOPMENT (II) | Cruciform Lecture Theatre | ||
| 5:00 - 5:30pm | INVITED TALK: NIRS imaging of spatiotemporal activity in the developing brain | Gentaro Taga | |
| 5:30 - 5:45pm | Cortical Mapping of 3D Optical Topography in infants | Maria D Papademetriou | |
| 5:45 - 6:00 | Interaction between brain maturation and experience: hemodynamic responses to speech categories in full term and preterm neonates | Minagawa-Kawai | |
| 6:00 - 6:15 | Developmental Changes in Frontal-Parietal Activation Associated with Visual Working Memory Capacity | John Spencer | |
| 6:15 - 6:45pm | KEYNOTE LECTURE: Brain connectivity inference for fMRI data | Will Penny | Cruciform Lecture Theatre |
| 7:00 - 11:30pm | SOCIAL EVENT: AN EVENING IN A GREAT BRITISH PUB | Jeremy Bentham Pub, University Street | |
Sunday 28th October |
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| APPLICATIONS: ADULT (I) | Cruciform Lecture Theatre | ||
| 8:00 - 8:30am | INVITED TALK: Application of functional near infrared spectroscopy in Psychiatry | Andreas Fallgatter | |
| 8:30 - 8:45am | Physiological Correlates of Perceptual Learning | Uma Shahani | |
| 8:45 - 9:00am | Neural correlates of spontaneous deception | Kang Lee | |
| 9:00 - 9:15am | Frontal activation scales with working memory load: a near-infrared spectroscopy study | Frank A. Fishburn | |
| 9:15 - 9:30am | The effect of inner speech on arterial pCO2, cerebral hemodynamics and oxygenation | Martin Wolf | |
| 9:30 - 11:30am | COFFEE AND POSTER VIEWING | North Cloisters and Old Refectory | |
| APPLICATIONS : ADULT (II) | Cruciform Lecture Theatre | ||
| 11:30 - 12:00pm | INVITED TALK: Adult Clinical Applications of Near Infrared Spectroscopy | Martin Smith | |
| 12:00 - 12:15pm | Assessments of memory impairments associated with posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) by near infrared spectroscopy | Fenghua Tian | |
| 12:15 - 12:30pm | Simultaneous EEG and fNIRS assessment of language processing: A tool to investigate changes in aphasia during (sub)acute stroke? | Sonja Rossi | |
| 12:30 - 12:45pm | Characterising the response of cytochrome c oxidase to changes in cerebral oxygen supply and demand in the healthy adult brain | Christina Kolyva | |
| 12:45 - 1:00pm | Investigating the origin of hemodynamic fluctuations using high-resolution diffuse optical tomography in humans | Christina Habermehl | |
| 1:00 - 2:00pm | LUNCH | ||
| 2:00 - 2:30pm | KEYNOTE LECTURE: Interpreting NIRS data: the modelling challenge | Murad Banaji | Cruciform Lecture Theatre |
| APPLICATIONS: NEONATAL AND PAEDIATRIC | Cruciform Lecture Theatre | ||
| 2:30 - 3:00pm | INVITED TALK: Clinical application of Near infrared Spectroscopy in the Neonate | Frank Van Bel | |
| 3:00 - 3:15pm | A Study of Preschool Irritability: NIRS Brain Imaging of correlates of clinical irritability | Susan B. Perlman | |
| 3:15 - 3:30pm | Development of a Multimodal Functional Brain Imaging Laboratory for Newborn Infants | T. Austin | |
| 3:30 - 3:45pm | ROUND-UP AND CLOSE | ||