School of Architecture and Environmental Design, Iran University of Science and Technology, Tehran, Iran.
Institute for Cognitive and Brain Sciences, Shahid Beheshti University, Evin Sq., Tehran, 19839-63113, Iran.
Exp Brain Res. 2024 Jun;242(6):1291-1300. doi: 10.1007/s00221-024-06812-z. Epub 2024 Mar 28.
Neuro-architecture is a specific branch of architecture that studies how the physical environment can change our mental processes and influence our behaviors. One of the main purposes of this field is to use changes in brain activities as a measure to quantify attractiveness of the landscapes. In this study, we investigated how changes in elements of attractiveness influence ones' emotional perception and present the related pattern of changes in brain activities. Therefore, we implied five elements of attractiveness including mystery, visual openness, landscape or greenness, walkability, and social interaction using the Delphi method. Then, we made changes in each element separately to make the landscape more attractive and assessed their effects on a group of young adults. We used the self-assessment manikin questionnaire to measure the participants' emotional perception while the participants' brain activities were recorded using a 32-channel EEG while exposed to the landscape images. The results showed that changes in attractive elements of the landscape could significantly improve ones' emotional perception of the landscape. In addition, these changes are perceived by changing the oscillatory pattern of brain activities. We hope these findings could shed a light to use of neural markers in measurement of place attractiveness.
神经建筑学是建筑学的一个特定分支，研究物理环境如何改变我们的心理过程并影响我们的行为。该领域的主要目的之一是利用大脑活动的变化作为衡量景观吸引力的指标。在这项研究中，我们调查了吸引力要素的变化如何影响人的情感感知，并呈现了大脑活动变化的相关模式。因此，我们使用 Delphi 方法引入了神秘性、视觉开放性、景观或绿色性、可步行性和社会互动等五个吸引力要素。然后，我们分别改变每个元素，使景观更具吸引力，并评估它们对一组年轻成年人的影响。我们使用自我评估情绪量表来衡量参与者的情感感知，同时使用 32 通道 EEG 记录参与者在暴露于景观图像时的大脑活动。结果表明，景观吸引力要素的变化可以显著改善人们对景观的情感感知。此外，这些变化是通过改变大脑活动的振荡模式来感知的。我们希望这些发现可以为使用神经标记物来衡量场所吸引力提供一些启示。
