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Are the two balls of the same color?

Look at the two balls below. What colors are they? To me, the left ball is definitely blue, and the right one is green. If you see the same way, Haha, you (your brain) is tricked! I used photoshop to remove the background purple and yellow colors, th
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NIRS People: Interview Dr Chunming Lu

Chunming Lu’s lab in Beijing Normal University has published a paper titled “Shared neural representations of syntax during online dyadic communication” in NeuroImage. This is another fNIRS hyperscanning study within a month (check
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Fix narginchk Error using SPM

Today I downloaded SPM 12 latest version, and when I tried to start it complained: Error using narginchk (line 10) too many input arguments This error is caused by the conflict of multiple narginchk functions. To find out where they are, type >>
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Interview with Drs. Chenbo Wang and Xianchun Li

A group of scientists in East China Normal University has published a paper earlier this month titled “Dynamic interpersonal neural synchronization underlying pain-induced cooperation in females” in HBM. They studied how pain affected coo
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6 experiments you should do with NIRS (vs fMRI)

Let’s be frank. Compared to fMRI, NIRS has a number of intrinsic weaknesses. The signal to noise ratio is lower, the spatial resolution is (10x) lower, it can’t measure the deep brain, and it only covers a portio
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fNIRS中基线的做法和注意事项 (Baseline in fNIRS)

This article is a guest post by Rui Chen. An English version can be downloaded here 对于信号的分析,不论是脑电的数据
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BOLD5000, A public fMRI dataset of 5000 images

Official website and download Full text paper link Good news for brain imaging researchers. There is a new dataset available for you to play with. BOLD5000 is a large-scale, slow event-related fMRI dataset collected on 4 subjects, each observing 5,25
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Google Dataset search, a great tool for fNIRS and…

Google just launched a new search engine: Google Dataset search. With this app, scientists can search public datasets published in scientific journals (and possibly other sources). According to Google, “Dataset Search enables users to find data
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fNIRS 2018

fNIRS 2010 conference will be held during October 5-8, 2018 in Tokyo, Japan. You may find more information at http://fnirs2018.org/. The early registration deadline is 2018-09-05.
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