Publications using the OctaMon
Feasibility of Virtual Shopping Budget-Management Training on Executive Functions in Healthy Young Adults: A Pilot Study
To date, budget management in virtual shopping training has not been given much importance. The main objective of this study was to investigate the effects of virtual shopping budget-management training on executive functions and brain activation. …
Mental workload classification using convolutional neural networks based on fNIRS-derived prefrontal activity
Abstract Background Functional near-infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS) is a tool to assess brain activity during cognitive testing. Despite its usefulness, its feasibility in assessing mental workload remains unclear. This study was to investigate the …
Frailty is associated with worse executive function and higher cerebral blood velocity in cognitively healthy older adults: a cross-sectional study
Frailty is characterized by an increased vulnerability to adverse health events. Executive function impairment is an early sign of progression towards cognitive impairments. Whether frailty is associated with executive function and the associated …
Driving risk cognition of passengers in highly automated driving based on the prefrontal cortex activity via fNIRS
Abstract For high-level automated vehicles, the human being acts as the passenger instead of the driver and does not need to operate vehicles, it makes the brain–computer interface system of high-level automated vehicles depend on the brain state of …
Load carriage physiology in normoxia and hypoxia
Abstract Purpose To determine the effects of load carriage in normoxia and normobaric hypoxia on ventilatory responses, hemodynamics, tissue oxygenation, and metabolism. Methods Healthy males (n = 12) completed 3 randomly ordered baseline graded …
Dose–Response of Creatine Supplementation on Cognitive Function in Healthy Young Adults
To determine if creatine (Cr) supplementation could influence cognitive performance and whether any changes were related to changes in prefrontal cortex (PFC) activation during such cognitive tasks, thirty (M = 11, F = 19) participants were evenly …
Cocoa flavanols protect cognitive function, cerebral oxygenation, and mental fatigue during severe hypoxia
We show for the first time that cocoa flavanols exert a neuroprotective effect during severe hypoxia. Following acute cocoa flavanol ingestion, we observed improvements in cognition, cerebral oxygenation, and subjective fatigue during normoxia and …
Exercise interventions, postural control, and prefrontal cortex activation in older adults
Improving postural control in older adults is necessary for reducing fall risk, and prefrontal cortex activation may also play a role. We sought to examine the impact of exercise interventions on postural control and prefrontal cortex activation …
Operational Modal Analysis of Near-Infrared Spectroscopy Measure of 2-Month Exercise Intervention Effects in Sedentary Older Adults with Diabetes and Cognitive Impairment
The Global Burden of Disease Study (GBD 2019 Diseases and Injuries Collaborators) found that diabetes significantly increases the overall burden of disease, leading to a 24.4% increase in disability-adjusted life years. Persistently high glucose …
Prefrontal oxygenation varies as a function of response inhibition performance in healthy participants but not in youth with non-suicidal self-injury
Non-suicidal self-injury (NSSI), a highly prevalent symptom in adolescence, has been associated with impulsivity. Behavioral measures of response inhibition in combination with the recording of brain activity potentially improve the understanding of …
The prefrontal cortex hemodynamic responses to dual-task paradigms in older adults: A systematic review and meta-analysis
Background Functional near-infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS) is a method to measure cerebral hemodynamics. Determining the changes in prefrontal cortex (PFC) hemodynamics during dual-task paradigms is essential in explaining alterations in physical …
Behavioral modeling and neuroimaging of impaired risky decision making in patients with chronic musculoskeletal pain
Significance Performance during risky decision making is one of the essential cognitive functions that is impaired in several psychiatric disorders including addiction. However, the cognitive mechanism and neural correlates underlying risky decision …
Identifying high cognitive load activities during simulated pediatric cardiac arrest using functional near-infrared spectroscopy
Aim To identify specific activities associated with high cognitive load during simulated pediatric out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (POHCA) resuscitation using physiological monitoring with functional near-infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS). Methods We …
Measuring cognitively demanding activities in pediatric out-of-hospital cardiac arrest
Abstract Background This methodological intersection article demonstrates a method to measure cognitive load in clinical simulations. Researchers have hypothesized that high levels of cognitive load reduce performance and increase errors. This …
Naturalistic auditory stimuli with fNIRS prefrontal cortex imaging: A potential paradigm for disorder of consciousness diagnostics (a study with healthy participants)
Disorder of consciousness (DOC) is a devastating condition due to brain damage. A patient in this condition is non-responsive, but nevertheless might be conscious at least at some level. Determining the conscious level of DOC patients is important …
Differences in the prefrontal cortex responses of healthy young men performing either water-based or land-based exercise at light to moderate intensity
Abstract Cerebral blood flow increases more during water-based exercise than land-based exercise owing to the effects of end-tidal CO 2 (PETCO 2 ) and mean arterial pressure (MAP) changes due to water immersion. However, it is unclear whether …
Effects of Personalized Cognitive Training with the Machine Learning Algorithm on Neural Efficiency in Healthy Younger Adults
To date, neural efficiency, an ability to economically utilize mental resources, has not been investigated after cognitive training. The purpose of this study was to provide customized cognitive training and confirm its effect on neural efficiency by …
Experimental study of transcranial pulsed current stimulation on relieving athlete’s mental fatigue
Objective To explore the effect of independently developed transcranial pulsed current stimulation (tPCS) on alleviating athlete’s mental fatigue. Methods A total of 60 college athletes were randomly divided into the active stimulation group …
Altered psychobiological reactivity but no impairment of emotion recognition following stress in adolescents with non-suicidal self-injury
Abstract Impairments in both stress regulation and emotion recognition have been associated with borderline personality disorder (BPD) and non-suicidal self-injury (NSSI). Although it has been proposed that emotion recognition deficits particularly …
Functional near-infrared spectroscopy imaging of the prefrontal cortex during a naturalistic comedy movie
Naturalistic stimulation (i.e., movies and auditory narratives of some minutes’ length) has been a powerful approach to bringing more real-life experiences into laboratory experiments. Data-driven, intersubject correlation (ISC) analysis permits …