Near-infrared spectroscopy (NIRS) in functional research of prefrontal cortex

Nobuo Masataka; Leonid Perlovsky; Kazuo Hiraki

doi:10.3389/fnhum.2015.00274

Near-infrared spectroscopy (NIRS) in functional research of prefrontal cortex

Front Hum Neurosci. 2015 May 12:9:274. doi: 10.3389/fnhum.2015.00274. eCollection 2015.

Authors

Nobuo Masataka¹, Leonid Perlovsky², Kazuo Hiraki³

Affiliations

¹ Primate Research Institute, Kyoto University Inuyama, Japan.
² Psychology Department, Northeastern University Boston, MA, USA.
³ Department of General Systems Studies and Center for Evolutionary Cognitive Sciences, The University of Tokyo Tokyo, Japan.

No abstract available

Keywords: cognition; emotions; functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI); hemodynamics; near infrared spectroscopy; oxy-hemoglobin; prefrontal cortex (PFC).