“…Owing to its main features, such as affordability, portability, and versatility, fNIRS holds great potential to be applied to pediatric and neonatal (Peng & Hou, 2021;Tang et al, 2024), neurodegenerative (Blum et al, 2022;Kuruvilla et al, 2013;Keles et al, 2022), and critically brain-injured (Abdalmalak et al, 2020;Bicciato et al, 2022;Wang et al, 2022;Shu et al, 2023) populations, as well as naturalistic paradigms more broadly (see Pinti et al, 2018 for a review).…”