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Enlarged Interior Built Environment Scale Modulates High-Frequency EEG Oscillations

There is currently no robust method to evaluate how built environment design affects our emotion. Understanding emotion is significant, as it influences cognitive processes, behavior, and wellbeing, and is linked to the functioning of physiological systems. As mental health problems are becoming mor...

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Autores principales: Bower, Isabella S., Clark, Gillian M., Tucker, Richard, Hill, Aron T., Lum, Jarrad A. G., Mortimer, Michael A., Enticott, Peter G.
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Publicado: Society for Neuroscience 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9512621/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36028331
http://dx.doi.org/10.1523/ENEURO.0104-22.2022
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author Bower, Isabella S.
Clark, Gillian M.
Tucker, Richard
Hill, Aron T.
Lum, Jarrad A. G.
Mortimer, Michael A.
Enticott, Peter G.
author_facet Bower, Isabella S.
Clark, Gillian M.
Tucker, Richard
Hill, Aron T.
Lum, Jarrad A. G.
Mortimer, Michael A.
Enticott, Peter G.
author_sort Bower, Isabella S.
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description There is currently no robust method to evaluate how built environment design affects our emotion. Understanding emotion is significant, as it influences cognitive processes, behavior, and wellbeing, and is linked to the functioning of physiological systems. As mental health problems are becoming more prevalent, and exposure to indoor environments is increasing, it is important we develop rigorous methods to understand whether design elements in our environment affect emotion. This study examines whether the scale of interior built environments modulate neural networks involved in emotion regulation. Using a Cave Automatic Virtual Environment (CAVE) and controlling for indoor environmental quality (IEQ), 66 adults (31 female, aged 18–55) were exposed to context-neutral enclosed indoor room scenes to understand whether built environment scale affected self-report, autonomic nervous system, and central nervous system correlates of emotion. Our results revealed enlarged scale increased electroencephalography (EEG) power in the β bandwidth. Frontal midline low-γ and high-γ power were also found to increase with enlarged scale, but contrary to our hypothesis, scale did not modulate frontal midline power or lateralization in the θ or α bandwidths. We did not detect an effect of scale on autonomic indicators or self-reported emotion. However, we did find increased range in skin conductance response (SCR) and heart rate variability (HRV) to the built environment conditions. This study provides a rigorous empirical framework for assessing the environmental impact of a design characteristic on human emotion and suggests that measures of high-frequency oscillations may provide a useful marker of the response to built environment.
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spelling pubmed-95126212022-09-27 Enlarged Interior Built Environment Scale Modulates High-Frequency EEG Oscillations Bower, Isabella S. Clark, Gillian M. Tucker, Richard Hill, Aron T. Lum, Jarrad A. G. Mortimer, Michael A. Enticott, Peter G. eNeuro Research Article: New Research There is currently no robust method to evaluate how built environment design affects our emotion. Understanding emotion is significant, as it influences cognitive processes, behavior, and wellbeing, and is linked to the functioning of physiological systems. As mental health problems are becoming more prevalent, and exposure to indoor environments is increasing, it is important we develop rigorous methods to understand whether design elements in our environment affect emotion. This study examines whether the scale of interior built environments modulate neural networks involved in emotion regulation. Using a Cave Automatic Virtual Environment (CAVE) and controlling for indoor environmental quality (IEQ), 66 adults (31 female, aged 18–55) were exposed to context-neutral enclosed indoor room scenes to understand whether built environment scale affected self-report, autonomic nervous system, and central nervous system correlates of emotion. Our results revealed enlarged scale increased electroencephalography (EEG) power in the β bandwidth. Frontal midline low-γ and high-γ power were also found to increase with enlarged scale, but contrary to our hypothesis, scale did not modulate frontal midline power or lateralization in the θ or α bandwidths. We did not detect an effect of scale on autonomic indicators or self-reported emotion. However, we did find increased range in skin conductance response (SCR) and heart rate variability (HRV) to the built environment conditions. This study provides a rigorous empirical framework for assessing the environmental impact of a design characteristic on human emotion and suggests that measures of high-frequency oscillations may provide a useful marker of the response to built environment. Society for Neuroscience 2022-09-21 /pmc/articles/PMC9512621/ /pubmed/36028331 http://dx.doi.org/10.1523/ENEURO.0104-22.2022 Text en Copyright © 2022 Bower et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) , which permits unrestricted use, distribution and reproduction in any medium provided that the original work is properly attributed.
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Lum, Jarrad A. G.
Mortimer, Michael A.
Enticott, Peter G.
Enlarged Interior Built Environment Scale Modulates High-Frequency EEG Oscillations
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title_fullStr Enlarged Interior Built Environment Scale Modulates High-Frequency EEG Oscillations
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title_short Enlarged Interior Built Environment Scale Modulates High-Frequency EEG Oscillations
title_sort enlarged interior built environment scale modulates high-frequency eeg oscillations
topic Research Article: New Research
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9512621/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36028331
http://dx.doi.org/10.1523/ENEURO.0104-22.2022
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