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Artinis’ PortaLite

Note: I am not affiliated with Artinis and they don’t pay me for this post. If you also sell portable NIRS device and would like to demo to me, I am happy to see it. Marco, the salesman of Artinis, gave me a demo of their wireless/portable NIRS
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Find anatomical location of a list of MNI coordinates

Quite often you need to know what is the brain structure (anatomical name) of a given coordinate, say (-8, 2, 6)? Is there a program for this? The answer is yes. Please download the following matlab script: cuixufindstructure.m This program requires
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Secrete usage of xjview: Creating a mask based on…

Many users have created masks from a T-test image; xjView also allows you to create a mask based anatomy. Say, if you want to create a mask of Amygdala, how to do that? (You need to use xjview 8.10. 1 min video demo at http://youtu.be/31q_6jumhhM) 1.
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An fMRI ROI analysis program (beta)

Previously I said I was developing a ROI analysis program (https://www.alivelearn.net/?p=1421). Here it is: Download main program (beta version) at https://www.alivelearn.net/xjview/xjviewpro/xjviewpro.p Download sample input excel file: https://www.
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Convert coordinates in MNI space to matrix space

Quite often you need to convert the coordinates of some voxels in MNI space to regular matrix coordinates. Below is a script to do so: %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% %%% mni2cor %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
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What does a wavelet coherence plot tell you?

Can you find any pattern in the two signals, green and blue? The blue signal is the brain wave (measured by NIRS) of a person when he is pressing some buttons (the timing of button pressing is shown in the vertical lines); the green signal is also br
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I am developing a fMRI ROI analysis program

Check out the program: https://www.alivelearn.net/?p=1439 This program has a very simple graphic interface – only 2 buttons. The ‘load data’ button will ask you to load an excel file where you specify the path of images and event ti
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Number in Neuroscience

This is some numbers I collected long time ago. What How Much Where Constants and Equations (a list) go to Brain Facts (a list) go to Metabolic Energy (a list) go to Number of neurons and synapses neurons 1011 synapses 1014 pyramidal neurons >80%
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Hyperscanning with Near Infrared Spectroscopy

This is a manuscript Chao and myself prepared for a “commentary”. We think NIRS based hyperscanning has a great potential on the shift from one-person neuroscience to 2-people neuroscience. —- Toward an Ecologically Valid Second-per
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