fNIRS Symposium - May 4-5
by Szuma, Lisa K.
Friday, May 4, 2012 - 8:30am - Saturday, May 5, 2012 - 12:00pm
CHGD Commons, 10th Floor NIB
300 North Ingalls Building
Friday, May 4, 2012 - 8:00am - 5:00pm
8:00-8:30am Continental Breakfast
8:30-8:45am Opening Remarks, Introduction
Brenda Volling and Twila Tardif, University of Michigan
8:45-9:45am “Functional Near Infrared Spectroscopy”
David A. Boas, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School
9:45-10:45am “Probing the Development of Visual Working Memory Capacity with Dynamic Neural Fields and fNIRS”
John Spencer, University of Iowa
10:45-11:00am Break
11:00–Noon “Why Some Children Develop Differently: fNIRS studies of Brain Development in Children at Risk for Autism”
Charles Nelson, Harvard Medical School and Boston Children’s Hospital
Noon-1:00pm Lunch
1:00-2:15pm "fNIRS as a Brain Imaging Method in Neuroscience"
Session Chair: Theodore Huppert, University of Pittsburgh
Participants: Martin Muller, Doug Noll, Angela Harrivel, Xueding Wang, University of Michigan
2:15-2:30pm Break
2:30-3:45pm "fNIRS Imaging as a Method for the Study of Brain Development and Human Cognition"
Session Chair: Heather Bortfeld, University of Connecticut
Participants: Lindsay Bowman, Ioulia Kovelman,Twila Tardif, Henry Wellman, University of Michigan
4:00-5:00pm Poster Session
Saturday, May 5, 2012 - 8:30am - 12:00pm
TechEN fNIRS Imaging System: Introduction, Use, and Data Analyses
8:30-9:00am Continental Breakfast
9:00-10:00am "Introduction to TechEN Imaging System"
Arthur (Buzz) DiMartino, TechEN
10:00-10:30am "Introduction to Data Analyses with HomER"
David A. Boas, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School
10:30-11:00am "How to use TechEN fNIRS with Young Children"
Heather Bortfeld, University of Connecticut
11:00-Noon "Hands-on Practice Demonstration & Questions and Answers"
Audience participation for mini-experiments with fNIRS
fNIRS at the University of Michigan is made possible by funding from:
Office of the Vice President for Research, Center for Human Growth and Development,
College of Literature Science and the Arts, College of Engineering,
Biomedical Engineering/Functional MRI Laboratory, the Departments of Linguistics,
Otolaryngology/Audiology, Pediatrics, Psychiatry, Psychology, and Radiology, and the
Schools of Dentistry and Kinesiology
