Interior contour, an essential component of the built environment, has drawn wide attention
from home and abroad. From the perspective of neuroaesthetics, preference for architectural …

People today spend most of their lives in buildings. The design of the built environment can
impact mood, behavior, and wellbeing. The evidence discussed in Chapter 1 suggests that …

People in developed countries spend over 90% of their time in built environments. Yet, we
know little about its pervasive and often hidden effects on our mental state and our brain …

On average, we urban dwellers spend about 90% of our time indoors, and share the intuition
that the physical features of the places we live and work in influence how we feel and act …

People spend considerable time within built environments. In this study, we tested two
hypotheses about the relationship between people and built environments. First, aesthetic …

In this chapter, we provide a review of the state-of-the-art neuroaesthetics of the built
environment. Assuming varying levels of neuroscientific knowledge with the readers, we …

Buildings surround us yet we rarely stop to consider how they impact our lives. A few years
ago, we developed a brain-based model of architectural experience (Coburn, Vartanian, & …

Introduction The aesthetic preferences of people can determine the success of a design and
are often closely related to design features. The discovery of designs that match user …

Visual perception of architectural spaces and human aesthetic experience in these spaces
have recently received considerable interest in cognitive science. However, it has been …

Background: Neuro-architecture is an emerging discipline which uses neuroscientific
methods to measure the brain and body's responses while the subjects are immersed in …