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  • Neuroscience
  • Environmental Psychology
  • Architecture

Background:

  • Understanding how the built environment influences human emotion is crucial for well-being.
  • Current methods for assessing this impact are limited.
  • Rising mental health concerns and increased indoor time necessitate rigorous evaluation of environmental design on emotion.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate if the scale of interior built environments modulates neural networks involved in emotion regulation.
  • To establish a robust empirical framework for evaluating the impact of design characteristics on human emotion.

Main Methods:

  • 66 adults were exposed to varying scales of enclosed indoor room scenes within a Cave Automatic Virtual Environment (CAVE).
  • Indoor environmental quality (IEQ) was controlled.
  • Measurements included self-report, autonomic nervous system (ANS) indicators (skin conductance response, heart rate variability), and central nervous system (CNS) activity (electroencephalography - EEG).

Main Results:

  • Enlarged scale environments increased electroencephalography (EEG) power in the beta (β) bandwidth.
  • Frontal midline low-gamma (γ) and high-gamma (γ) power also increased with enlarged scale.
  • No significant modulation of frontal midline theta (θ) or alpha (α) bandwidths was detected.
  • Autonomic indicators and self-reported emotion were not significantly affected by scale, but a greater range in skin conductance response (SCR) and heart rate variability (HRV) was observed.

Conclusions:

  • Built environment scale can modulate neural activity related to emotion regulation, specifically increasing beta and gamma oscillations.
  • High-frequency EEG oscillations may serve as a useful marker for the brain's response to the built environment.
  • This study provides a validated framework for assessing the psychological impact of architectural design.