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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2019 Oct 1.
Published in final edited form as: Jpn Psychol Res. 2018 Jul 19;60(4):347–373. doi: 10.1111/jpr.12206

Table 5.

Overview of the analysis of fNIRS data.

First author fNIRS analysis
Method Activation parameter Time used for the analysis
Atsumori et al. 2010 - Averaging + t-test - HbO2 and HbR - 6 – 32 s after the start of the task
Balardin et al. 2017 - GLM + t-test
- CWT		 - HbO2 - Entire task block
- 1 min
Doi et al. 2013 - Averaging + t-test - HbO2 - Entire task block
Maidan et al. 2016 - Averaging + Linear mixed model - HbO2 - Entire task block
McKendrick et al. 2016 - Averaging + Generalized and linear mixed model - HbO2 and HbR - Entire task block
McKendrick et al. 2017 - Averaging + Generalized and linear mixed model - HbO2 and HbR - Entire task block
Mirelaman et al. 2014 - Averaging + RM ANOVA
- CWT		 - HbO2 - Entire task block
Nieuwhof et al. 2016 - Averaging + Wilcoxon signed-rank test - HbO2 and HbR - Entire task block
Pinti et al. 2015 - N/A - HbO2 and HbR - Entire task period
Takeuchi et al. 2016 - Averaging + ANOVA - HbO2 - Entire task block

Note. Abbreviations: GLM = General linear model; CWT = Continuous wavelet transform; RM ANOVA = Repeated measures analysis of variance analysis.