Trial reportPloS one2018
fNIRS measurement of cortical activation and functional connectivity during a visuospatial working memory task.
Trial report in PloS one, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. An erratum has been issued. Cited by 31 papers.
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Who cites it
31 citing papers in PubMed.
- Prefrontal fNIRS hemodynamic correlates of attentional load during rapid serial visual presentation tasks.Frontiers in human neuroscience · 2026Article
- DrSVision: A Machine Learning Tool for Cortical Region-Specific fNIRS Calibration Based on Cadaveric Head MRI.Sensors (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- fNIRS, EEG, ECG, and GSR reveal an effect of complex, dynamically changing environments on cognitive load, affective state, and performance, but not physiological stress.Frontiers in human neuroscience · 2025Article
- Creating anatomically derived, standardized, customizable, and three-dimensional printable head caps for functional neuroimaging.Neurophotonics · 2025Article
- Creating anatomically-derived, standardized, customizable, and three-dimensional printable head caps for functional neuroimaging.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2024Article
- Impaired Neurovascular Coupling and Increased Functional Connectivity in the Frontal Cortex Predict Age-Related Cognitive Dysfunction.Advanced science (Weinheim, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany) · 2024Article
- Prenatal and childhood exposure to organophosphate pesticides and functional brain imaging in young adults.Environmental research · 2024Article
- Unveiling Neurocognitive Disparities in Encoding and Retrieval between Paper and Digital Tablet-Based Learning.Brain sciences · 2024Article
- Driving risk cognition of passengers in highly automated driving based on the prefrontal cortex activity via fNIRS.Scientific reports · 2023Article
- Impact of averaging fNIRS regional coherence data when monitoring people with long term post-concussion symptoms.Neurophotonics · 2023Article
- Functional near-infrared spectroscopy in elderly patients with four types of dementia.World journal of psychiatry · 2023Article
- Functional near-infrared spectroscopy measures of neural activity in children with and without developmental language disorder during a working memory task.Brain and behavior · 2023Article
- An fNIRS Study of Applicability of the Unity-Diversity Model of Executive Functions in Preschoolers.Brain sciences · 2022Article
- Pesticide exposure and cortical brain activation among farmworkers in Costa Rica.Neurotoxicology · 2022Article
- Age-Related Changes in Functional Connectivity during the Sensorimotor Integration Detected by Artificial Neural Network.Sensors (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022Article
- Metabolic Connectivity and Hemodynamic-Metabolic Coherence of Human Prefrontal Cortex at Rest and Post Photobiomodulation Assessed by Dual-Channel Broadband NIRS.Metabolites · 2022Article
- Left Frontotemporal Region Plays a Key Role in Letter Fluency Task-Evoked Activation and Functional Connectivity in Normal Subjects: A Functional Near-Infrared Spectroscopy Study.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2022Article
- The Validation of a Portable Functional NIRS System for Assessing Mental Workload.Sensors (Basel, Switzerland) · 2021Article
- Effects of β-Lactolin on Regional Cerebral Blood Flow within the Dorsolateral Prefrontal Cortex during Working Memory Task in Healthy Adults: A Randomized Controlled Trial.Journal of clinical medicine · 2021Article
- Evaluation of smartphone interactions on drivers' brain function and vehicle control in an immersive simulated environment.Scientific reports · 2021Article
Corrections and comments
- Erratum issued
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Abstract
Demands on visuospatial working memory are a ubiquitous part of everyday life. As such, significant efforts have been made to understand how the brain responds to these demands in real-world environments. Multiple brain imaging studies have highlighted a fronto-parietal cortical network that underlies visuospatial working memory, is modulated by cognitive load, and that appears to respond uniquely to encoding versus retrieval components. Furthermore, multiple studies have identified functional connectivity in regions of the fronto-parietal network during working memory tasks. Together, these findings have helped outline important aspects of the neural architecture that underlies visuospatial working memory. Here, we provide results from the first fNIRS-based investigation of fronto-parietal signatures of cortical activation and functional connectivity during a computer-based visuospatial working memory task. Our results indicate that the local maxima of cortical activation and functional coherence do not necessarily overlap spatially, and that cortical activation is significantly more susceptible to task-specific demands compared to functional connectivity. These results highlight important and novel information regarding neurotypical signatures of cortical activation and functional connectivity during visuospatial working memory. Our findings also demonstrate the utility of fNIRS for interrogating these cognitive processes.
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