Neuroarchitecture: Humans in the Built Environment

Dear Colleagues,

If architects created buildings with the user's happiness, healing, and emotions in mind, how would the spaces look? Organizations that support patient rehabilitation include hospitals, schools, and workplaces that foster creativity and attention. The application of cognitive neurosciences to applications in the built environment is known as neuroarchitecture: the design of effective environments that consider both objective metrics like emotion, pleasure, and well-being as well as technical ones like ergonomics, legal requirements, and environmental comfort.

How many times has one visited a location—be it a park, a housing complex, a mall, a house, or a building—and experienced either glad or enthusiastic feelings, or despair and anxiety?

Understanding how shapes, colors, and scales can affect human perception and measuring these indices is becoming easier thanks to advancements in cognitive neuroscience. Nowadays, one may already employ virtual and augmented reality, electrophysiological measurements, and magnetic resonance imaging to comprehend how nervous systems and brains function in different environments.

This Special Issue addresses the burgeoning field of neuroarchitecture in an attempt to create a “go to” source for current knowledge of the effect of the built environment on the nervous system as well as on cognitive functions, with a broad range of application areas including schools, hospitals, rehabilitation environments, the workplace, and even homes.

Prof. Dr. Yasha Jacob Grobman
Prof. Dr. Gerry Leisman
Dr. Avishag Shemesh
Guest Editors

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• neuroarchitecture
• cognitive neuroscience
• environment
• nervous system
• cognitive function