Uploaded September 2024 | Updated September 2026, 2 hours ago
In this presentation, Prof. Dewey emphasizes the expansive potential of fNIRS beyond the confines of the lab, sharing his experiences using fNIRS in naturalistic, relatively stable environments like classrooms and unpredictable settings like rainforests. Through examples, Prof. Dewey highlights the strengths of fNIRS, including its portability, movement tolerance, non-invasiveness, relative ease of learning, and usability for hyperscanning well beyond dyads. He also explains how they have navigated challenges such as Wi-Fi interference, limited access to electricity, high temperatures, humidity, and the unfamiliarity of indigenous communities with scientific equipment and methods. He also discusses the unique strengths of fNIRS that make it especially suitable for our own on-site, ecologically valid, real-time data collection.
In this presentation, Prof. Dewey emphasizes the expansive potential of fNIRS beyond the confines of the lab, sharing his experiences using fNIRS in naturalistic, relatively stable environments like classrooms and unpredictable settings like rainforests. Through examples, Prof. Dewey highlights the strengths of fNIRS, including its portability, movement tolerance, non-invasiveness, relative ease of learning, and usability for hyperscanning well beyond dyads. He also explains how they have navigated challenges such as Wi-Fi interference, limited access to electricity, high temperatures, humidity, and the unfamiliarity of indigenous communities with scientific equipment and methods. He also discusses the unique strengths of fNIRS that make it especially suitable for our own on-site, ecologically valid, real-time data collection.
