The studies we conducted were designed to illustrate how bilinguals (Spanish / English & Deaf / English) people process language in Broca and Wernicke's area in order to identify a neurophysiological signature for bilingualism.

In Dr. Laura-Ann Petitto's lab I wrote the software in Matlab to convert the raw data from the ETG-4000 to meaningful oxy and deoxygenated hemoglobin concentrations.

More on the application of NIRS here.