# The Neuroscience of Everyday World- A novel wearable system for continuous measurement of brain function

> **NIH NIH U01** · BOSTON UNIVERSITY (CHARLES RIVER CAMPUS) · 2021 · $164,734

## Abstract

fNIRS is now broadly adopted for measuring human brain function, particularly in ecologically
valid settings and in subjects and paradigms not easily studied with fMRI. We have worked with
the fNIRS community through the Society for fNIRS and developed the Standard functional Near
InfraRed data Format (SNIRF). SNIRF is documented and distributed through the Society for
fNIRS github page at github.com/fnirs and is being adopted by companies and academics to
facilitate the sharing of data and analysis methods. The goal of our supplement is to establish the
the necessary standards for organizing fNIRS data that will facilitate the sharing of data in a
format that easily enables results to be verified by others using the same or different processing
pipelines. In addition, our effort will enable the user community to easily adopt standardized
protocols for quality assurance of their data as well as standardize data processing
pipelines.

## Key facts

- **NIH application ID:** 10414384
- **Project number:** 3U01EB029856-02S1
- **Recipient organization:** BOSTON UNIVERSITY (CHARLES RIVER CAMPUS)
- **Principal Investigator:** David A Boas
- **Activity code:** U01 (R01, R21, SBIR, etc.)
- **Funding institute:** NIH
- **Fiscal year:** 2021
- **Award amount:** $164,734
- **Award type:** 3
- **Project period:** 2020-09-22 → 2023-05-31

## Primary source

NIH RePORTER: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10414384

## Citation

> US National Institutes of Health, RePORTER application 10414384, The Neuroscience of Everyday World- A novel wearable system for continuous measurement of brain function (3U01EB029856-02S1). Retrieved via AI Analytics 2026-05-23 from https://api.ai-analytics.org/grant/nih/10414384. Licensed CC0.

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