Zhang Yawen, Liu Congcong, Herrup Karl, Shi Bertram E
Annu Int Conf IEEE Eng Med Biol Soc. 2018 Jul;2018:1550-1553. doi: 10.1109/EMBC.2018.8512462.
Previous studies have demonstrated that exposure to a Japanese garden is a non-pharmacological measure to improve the behavioral symptoms of elderly people with dementia, and that Japanese gardens are significantly more effective than other environments. However, it is not clear whether Japanese gardens have similar effects in the young. To address this open question, we measured the physiological responses of university students when viewing a Japanese garden, and compared them to the same students' responses when viewing a control space. We measured three physiological indicators of autonomous nervous system (ANS) activity: the electrocardiograph (ECG), the blood volume pulse (BVP) and the galvanic skin response (GSR). Our results suggest that the Japanese garden does not have as calming an effect on younger subjects as observed previously in elderly subjects. However, students did respond more positively to the Japanese garden than to an unstructured space. Ambient temperature was found to be a critical factor affecting heart rate and heart rate variability, but not other measures.
先前的研究表明，置身于日式庭园是一种改善老年痴呆症患者行为症状的非药物措施，且日式庭园比其他环境显著更有效。然而，目前尚不清楚日式庭园对年轻人是否有类似效果。为解决这个悬而未决的问题，我们测量了大学生观看日式庭园时的生理反应，并将其与这些学生观看对照空间时的反应进行比较。我们测量了自主神经系统（ANS）活动的三个生理指标：心电图（ECG）、血容量脉搏（BVP）和皮肤电反应（GSR）。我们的结果表明，日式庭园对年轻受试者的 calming 效果不如先前在老年受试者中观察到的那样明显。然而，学生们对日式庭园的反应确实比对无结构空间的反应更积极。发现环境温度是影响心率和心率变异性的关键因素，但对其他测量指标没有影响。 （注：原文中“calming”此处可能有误，结合语境推测可能是“镇静、舒缓”之类意思，可根据实际情况进一步确认。）
