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REVIEW PAPER
MEASURING CORTICAL ACTIVITY DURING
AUDITORY PROCESSING WITH FUNCTIONAL
NEAR-INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY
1
Department of Otorhinolaryngology, Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition, and
Behaviour, Radboud University Medical Center, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
2
Department of Biophysics, Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition, and Behaviour,
Radboud University, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
A - Research concept and design; B - Collection and/or assembly of data; C - Data analysis and interpretation; D - Writing the article; E - Critical revision of the article; F - Final approval of article;
Publication date: 2018-12-31
Corresponding author
Luuk P. H. van de Rijt
Department of Otorhinolaryngology, Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition, and Behaviour, Radboud University Nijmegen, Heyendaalseweg 135, 6525 AJ Nijmegen, The Netherlands, Telephone: +31 24 36 14 238, Email: luuk.vanderijt@radboudumc.nl
Department of Otorhinolaryngology, Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition, and Behaviour, Radboud University Nijmegen, Heyendaalseweg 135, 6525 AJ Nijmegen, The Netherlands, Telephone: +31 24 36 14 238, Email: luuk.vanderijt@radboudumc.nl
J Hear Sci 2018;8(4):9–18
KEYWORDS
near-infrared spectroscopy (NIRS)functional near-infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS)brain activityauditory cortex
ABSTRACT
Functional near-infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS) is an optical, non-invasive neuroimaging technique that investigates human brain activity by
calculating concentrations of oxy- and deoxyhemoglobin. The aim of this publication is to review the current state of the art as to how fNIRS
has been used to study auditory function. We address temporal and spatial characteristics of the hemodynamic response to auditory stimulation
as well as experimental factors that affect fNIRS data such as acoustic and stimulus-driven effects. The rising importance that fNIRS is generating in auditory neuroscience underlines the strong potential of the technology, and it seems likely that fNIRS will become a useful clinical tool.
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