ArticleBrain sciences2021
Real-World fNIRS Brain Activity Measurements during Ashtanga Vinyasa Yoga.
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- The impact of a 12-Week yoga intervention on attentional performance in school-aged children: a randomized controlled trial in Western China.BMC public health · 2025Trial
- The effect of Ashtanga-Vinyasa Yoga method on air force pilots' operational performance.Frontiers in public health · 2024Trial
- Hemodynamics of short-duration light-intensity physical exercise in the prefrontal cortex of children: a functional near-infrared spectroscopy study.Scientific reports · 2024Article
- Neural correlates of breath work, mental imagery of yoga postures, and meditation in yoga practitioners: a functional near-infrared spectroscopy study.Frontiers in neuroscience · 2024Article
- Real-time motion artifact suppression using convolution neural networks with penalty in fNIRS.Frontiers in neuroscience · 2024Article
- Gender differences in cognitive and affective interpersonal emotion regulation in couples: an fNIRS hyperscanning.Social cognitive and affective neuroscience · 2023Article
- Interdisciplinary views of fNIRS: Current advancements, equity challenges, and an agenda for future needs of a diverse fNIRS research community.Frontiers in integrative neuroscience · 2023Review
- Mobile fNIRS for exploring inter-brain synchrony across generations and time.Frontiers in neuroergonomics · 2023Article
- Motion artifacts removal and evaluation techniques for functional near-infrared spectroscopy signals: A review.Frontiers in neuroscience · 2022Review
- Methodological issues of the central mechanism of two classic acupuncture manipulations based on fNIRS: suggestions for a pilot study.Frontiers in human neuroscience · 2022Article
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Abstract
Functional near-infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS) is often praised for its portability and robustness towards motion artifacts. While an increasing body of fNIRS research in real-world environments is emerging, most fNIRS studies are still conducted in laboratories, and do not incorporate larger movements performed by participants. This study extends fNIRS applications in real-world environments by conducting a single-subject observational study of a yoga practice with considerable movement (Ashtanga Vinyasa Yoga) in a participant's natural environment (their apartment). The results show differences in cognitive load (prefrontal cortex activation) when comparing technically complex postures to relatively simple ones, but also some contrasts with surprisingly little difference. This study explores the boundaries of real-world cognitive load measurements, and contributes to the empirical knowledge base of using fNIRS in realistic settings. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first demonstration of fNIRS brain imaging recorded during any moving yoga practice. Future work with fNIRS should take advantage of this by accomplishing studies with considerable real-world movement.
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