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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2013 Feb 13.
Published in final edited form as: Cogn Neuropsychol. 2012 Feb 13;29(1-2):7–33. doi: 10.1080/02643294.2012.654773

Figure 1.

Figure 1

Left: Infant wearing a cap holding an array of 9 optical fibers to gather data from 12 NIRS channels over the left temporal cortex. Right: Schematic of a NIRS channel, showing the input and output optical fibers and the banana-shaped pathway of photons that dip into the gray matter of the brain after passing through superficial layers of skin, skull, and surface vasculature.