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The Nelson Lab, founded in 2005 as a part of the Boston Childrens Hospitals Laboratories of Cognitive Neuroscience, focuses on three distinct lines of research, with the overarching goal of elucidating the relation between brain and behavioral (particularly cognitive) development. The laboratory employs a variety of neuroimaging tools, including the electroencephalogram (EEG), functional Near Infrared Spectroscopy (fNIRS), and Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI), along with a variety of behavioral ...

The Nelson Lab, founded in 2005 as a part of the Boston Childrens Hospitals Laboratories of Cognitive Neuroscience, focuses on three distinct lines of research, with the overarching goal of elucidating the relation between brain and behavioral (particularly cognitive) development. The laboratory employs a variety of neuroimaging tools, including the electroencephalogram (EEG), functional Near Infrared Spectroscopy (fNIRS), and Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI), along with a variety of behavioral tools, including eye tracking.