Synchronous activity of two people's prefrontal cortices during a cooperative task measured by simultaneous near-infrared spectroscopy

Journal of Biomedical Optics

Volumn 16, Issue 7, 2011, Pages

  Funane, Tsukasa ^a   Kiguchi, Masashi ^a   Atsumori, Hirokazu ^a   Sato, Hiroki ^a   Kubota, Kisou ^a   Koizumi, Hideaki ^a  

^a HITACHI LTD   (Japan)

Author keywords

Brain activity; Hemoglobin; Hyperscanning; Near infrared spectroscopy; Simultaneous measurement; Wearable optical topography

Indexed keywords

ACTIVATION PATTERNS; BRAIN ACTIVITY; COOPERATIVE TASKS; HYPERSCANNING; NIRS SYSTEM; OPTICAL TOPOGRAPHY; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; SIMULTANEOUS MEASUREMENT; SOCIAL PROCESS; SPATIOTEMPORAL COVARIANCE; SYNCHRONOUS ACTIVITY;

INFRARED DEVICES; INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; PRESSES (MACHINE TOOLS); TEXTILES;

BRAIN;

DEOXYHEMOGLOBIN; HEMOGLOBIN; OXYHEMOGLOBIN;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN MAPPING; COOPERATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; INSTRUMENTATION; MALE; METABOLISM; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; MOTOR ACTIVITY; NEAR INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; OPTICAL TOMOGRAPHY; PHYSIOLOGY; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; TASK PERFORMANCE; VASCULARIZATION;

ADULT; BRAIN MAPPING; COOPERATIVE BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; HEMOGLOBINS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOTOR ACTIVITY; OXYHEMOGLOBINS; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SPECTROSCOPY, NEAR-INFRARED; TASK PERFORMANCE AND ANALYSIS; TOMOGRAPHY, OPTICAL;

EID: 80455137193     PISSN: 10833668     EISSN: 15602281     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1117/1.3602853     Document Type: Article

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