The brain within buildings

Dance, Amber

doi:10.1073/pnas.1620658114

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“…Studies indicate that aesthetic qualities of architecture have an impact on our mood, cognitive functioning, behavior, and even mental health (Adams, 2014;Hartig, 2008;Joye, 2007). This evidence coincides with a flourish of interest in the intersection of neuroscience and architecture (Dance, 2017;Robinson & Pallasmaa, 2015;Mallgrave, 2010;Eberhard, 2008). However, relatively little work has been conducted on the neuroscience of architecture.…”

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confidence: 86%

Buildings, Beauty, and the Brain: A Neuroscience of Architectural Experience

Coburn

Vartanian

Chatterjee

2017

Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience

125

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A burgeoning interest in the intersection of neuroscience and architecture promises to offer biologically inspired insights into the design of spaces. The goal of such interdisciplinary approaches to architecture is to motivate construction of environments that would contribute to peoples' flourishing in behavior, health, and well-being. We suggest that this nascent field of neuroarchitecture is at a pivotal point in which neuroscience and architecture are poised to extend to a neuroscience of architecture. In such a research program, architectural experiences themselves are the target of neuroscientific inquiry. Here, we draw lessons from recent developments in neuroaesthetics to suggest how neuroarchitecture might mature into an experimental science. We review the extant literature and offer an initial framework from which to contextualize such research. Finally, we outline theoretical and technical challenges that lie ahead. and architecture promises to offer biologically inspired insights into the design of spaces. The goal of such interdisciplinary approaches to architecture is to motivate construction of environments that would contribute to peoples' flourishing in behavior, health, and well-being. We suggest that this nascent field of neuroarchitecture is at a pivotal point in which neuroscience and architecture are poised to extend to a neuroscience of architecture. In such a research program, architectural experiences themselves are the target of neuroscientific inquiry. Here, we draw lessons from recent developments in neuroaesthetics to suggest how neuroarchitecture might mature into an experimental science. We review the extant literature and offer an initial framework from which to contextualize such research. Finally, we outline theoretical and technical challenges that lie ahead. ■ Disciplines Bioethics and Medical Ethics | Neuroscience and Neurobiology | Neurosciences

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Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 86%

Buildings, Beauty, and the Brain: A Neuroscience of Architectural Experience

Coburn

Vartanian

Chatterjee

2017

Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience

125

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“…Moreover, Dance () further proposed that the processing of architecture and space is not only related to the processing of perception, but is also associated with emotional processing and experience. Previous behavioral empirical studies have also found that contact with the natural environment or green space in urban areas is in a sense good for the experience of human beings, in terms of stress reduction (Joye, ), greater vitality (Ryan et al, ), higher rewarding experience (Zhang, Tang, He, & Chen, ; Zhang, Tang, He, & Lai, ), an improvement in social performance (Zhang, Piff, Iyer, Koleva, & Keltner, ) and cognitive function (Atchley, Strayer, & Atchley, ; Bratman, Hamilton, & Daily, ).…”

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confidence: 99%

Neural correlates of appreciating natural landscape and landscape garden: Evidence from an fMRI study

Zhang

Liu

et al. 2019

Brain and Behavior

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Introduction Rambling natural landscapes or landscape gardens may invoke positive emotions. However, the manner in which people experience landscape gardens and the cortical differences in the appreciation of the naturalness and artificiality of landscapes remain unknown. Methods This study scanned participants with functional magnetic resonance imaging while they viewed photographs of natural landscapes and landscape gardens and performed scene type judgment task. Results As predicted, we identified brain regions that were associated with perceptual process, cognitive process, and rewarding experience when appreciating natural landscapes and landscape gardens without color preference. Meanwhile, the contrast between the appreciation of landscape gardens and natural landscapes was characterized by stronger activations of the inferior occipital lobe, the left superior parietal lobule (SPL), the right fusiform gyrus, the right cuneus, and the right hippocampus. Conclusions Responses in these regions indicate that the appreciation of landscape gardens and natural landscapes relies on common cortical regions, and suggest the possibility that the inferior occipital lobe, the SPL, the fusiform gyrus, and the cuneus may be specifically associated with the appreciation of landscape gardens.

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“…These advances show the usefulness of the neuro-architectural approach to the cognitive-emotional dimension of architecture [ 523 , 524 , 525 ]. However, although neuroscientific research is extensive and rigorous, its application to architecture is an emerging discipline [ 526 , 527 ]. Thus, there are, as yet, few practical works exclusively focused on improving architectural design.…”

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The Cognitive-Emotional Design and Study of Architectural Space: A Scoping Review of Neuroarchitecture and Its Precursor Approaches

Higuera-Trujillo

Llinares

Macagno

2021

Sensors

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Humans respond cognitively and emotionally to the built environment. The modern possibility of recording the neural activity of subjects during exposure to environmental situations, using neuroscientific techniques and virtual reality, provides a promising framework for future design and studies of the built environment. The discipline derived is termed “neuroarchitecture”. Given neuroarchitecture’s transdisciplinary nature, it progresses needs to be reviewed in a contextualised way, together with its precursor approaches. The present article presents a scoping review, which maps out the broad areas on which the new discipline is based. The limitations, controversies, benefits, impact on the professional sectors involved, and potential of neuroarchitecture and its precursors’ approaches are critically addressed.

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The brain within buildings

Cited by 12 publications

References 7 publications

Buildings, Beauty, and the Brain: A Neuroscience of Architectural Experience

Buildings, Beauty, and the Brain: A Neuroscience of Architectural Experience

Neural correlates of appreciating natural landscape and landscape garden: Evidence from an fMRI study

The Cognitive-Emotional Design and Study of Architectural Space: A Scoping Review of Neuroarchitecture and Its Precursor Approaches

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