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Evidence strength · 27 records
Moderate
Useful human evidence with meaningful constraints, mixed results, or limited replication
how to use it:Treat as suggestive, not universal
ND-0007 · 2013 · Experimental study
Influence of indoor air temperature on human thermal comfort, motivation and performance
Cui et al. Building and Environment
Performance and motivation varied across tested temperatures; the warmest conditions were detrimental and motivation appeared to mediate part of the effect.
ND-0008 · 2010 · Experimental study
The effects of air temperature on office workers' well-being, workload and productivity-evaluated with subjective ratings
Lan, Lian & Pan. Applied Ergonomics
Temperature altered subjective workload and well-being, with physiological measures including HRV and EEG used alongside performance outcomes.
ND-0022 · 2020 · Experimental study
Irrelevant speech effect in open-plan offices: A laboratory study
Kostallari et al. Applied Acoustics
Irrelevant speech degraded aspects of cognitive task performance in an office-like context.
ND-0031 · 1984 · Comparative hospital study
View through a window may influence recovery from surgery
Roger S. Ulrich. Science
Patients with a tree view had shorter postoperative stays, fewer negative nurse notes and used fewer strong analgesics than matched patients facing a brick wall.
ND-0038 · 2014 · Case-control pilot study
Impact of Windows and Daylight Exposure on Overall Health and Sleep Quality of Office Workers
Boubekri et al. Journal of Clinical Sleep Medicine
Workers with more window/daylight exposure reported better sleep and wellbeing and had longer sleep duration in actigraphy analyses.
ND-0039 · 2026 · Naturalistic observational study
Naturalistic light exposure patterns in relation to medication status, mood symptoms, and chronotype
Authors per journal record. npj Biological Timing and Sleep
Naturalistic light patterns differed in relation to chronotype and mood-related variables, reinforcing the importance of real-world exposure timing.
ND-0049 · 2017 · Experimental study
Walking through Architectural Spaces: The Impact of Interior Forms on Human Brain Dynamics
Djebbara et al. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience
Brain dynamics changed as participants moved through different interior forms, supporting an embodied rather than purely visual account of architectural experience.
ND-0050 · 2021 · Experimental study
Effects of Changes to Architectural Elements on Human Relaxation-Arousal Responses: Based on VR and EEG
Kim et al. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
Changes to room proportions, ceiling height and window ratio produced differences in EEG-derived relaxation-arousal indices.
ND-0051 · 2020 · Experimental study
Building environment information and human perceptual feedback collected through a combined virtual reality and electroencephalogram method
Li et al. Energy and Buildings
The study linked environmental information, subjective perception, EEG activity and work efficiency in a controlled virtual framework.
ND-0054 · 2023 · Doctoral thesis
The processing of emotional body expressions within architectural experience: electroencephalography and eye-tracking studies in virtual reality
Author per University of Parma repository. University of Parma
Architectural experience modulated neural and visual processing of emotional body expressions in social scenarios.
ND-0060 · 1993 · Behavioral study
Visual Attributes Related to Preference in Interior Environments
Suzanne C. Scott. Journal of Interior Design
Preference clustered around recurring visual attributes of interiors, supporting links between aesthetic evaluation and information needs.
ND-0083 · 2019 · Experimental study
Physiological effects of visual stimulation with full-scale wall images composed of vertically and horizontally arranged wooden elements
Nakamura, Ikei & Miyazaki. Journal of Wood Science
Wooden-wall images reduced prefrontal oxyhemoglobin relative to a gray control and improved several subjective mood impressions; vertical and horizontal arrangements differed.
ND-0084 · 2024 · Experimental study
Multisensory nature exposure in the workplace: Exploring the restorative benefits of smell experiences
Yildirim, Globa, Gocer & Brambilla. Building and Environment
A multisensory biophilic workplace condition improved stress, mood and cognitive outcomes relative to a non-biophilic condition; olfactory pleasantness contributed to restoration.
ND-0085 · 2024 · Experimental study
Beyond sight: Comparing traditional virtual reality and immersive multi-sensory environments in stress reduction of university students
Baktash, Kim & Shirazi. Frontiers in Virtual Reality
Both immersive conditions reduced anxiety; the multisensory condition showed a larger reduction trend, though the between-group difference was not statistically decisive.
ND-0087 · 2008 · Experimental EEG study
Investigations of human EEG response to viewing fractal patterns
Hagerhall et al. Perception
EEG responses varied with fractal dimension; a mid-range fractal dimension produced distinctive frontal alpha and parietal beta patterns.
ND-0088 · 2006 · Review
Reduction of Physiological Stress Using Fractal Art and Architecture
R. P. Taylor. Leonardo
Mid-range fractal patterns are proposed to be processed efficiently and may reduce physiological stress.
ND-0117 · 2005 · Field / psychophysiological experiment
Human Response to Window Views and Indoor Plants in the Workplace
Chang & Chen. HortScience
Nature views and indoor plants were associated with lower tension or anxiety across several conditions compared with no-view/no-plant settings.
ND-0122 · 2026 · Longitudinal observational study
Longitudinal evidence for decreasing statistical learning abilities across childhood
Tóth-Fáber, Farkas, Tánczos, Németh & Janacsek. Nature Communications
Statistical learning declined between ages 7 and 14 in the same participants. Higher executive functions were associated with the decline. This confirms longitudinally what cross-sectional work had suggested: implicit pattern learning is strongest in early childhood.
ND-0123 · 2026 · Behavioral experiment
The (Reverse) Colavita Effect in Emotion Recognition: Children and Adults Come to Different Conclusions When Categorising Incongruent Emotional Audio-Visual Stimuli
Ross, Munro, Prasetyo, O'Toole, Hewakadawedduwage, Smith & Davies. Infant and Child Development
With matching cues, children and adults were equally accurate. With conflicting cues, children reported the emotion they heard at above-chance rates across every emotion pairing, while adults responded at chance or went with what they saw. The auditory bias was strongest in younger children.
ND-0124 · 2026 · Cross-sectional imaging epidemiology study
Evaluating the Effect of Neighborhood-level Disadvantage on Brain Health: An Imaging Epidemiology Study
Willbrand et al. Radiology
Living in the most disadvantaged neighborhoods was associated with a higher brain age gap (about 2.7 to 3.0 years), lower total brain volume and more white matter hyperintensity, after adjusting for age and sex.
ND-0126 · 2026 · Observational neuroimaging study
Human tau pathology is associated with lonely, nontraveling slow waves linked to memory impairment
Sharon, Chen, Dude, Westphal, Brown, Shah, Ju, Jagust & Walker. Nature Neuroscience
Frontal tau was associated with slow waves that stayed local instead of traveling across the cortex, and these 'lonely' slow waves were linked to worse overnight memory retention. The pattern replicated in a second group using CSF markers.
ND-0128 · 2026 · Experimental EEG study
Late cross-modal biases in neural spatial representations revealed by EEG decoding
Buhmann, Robinson, Mattingley & Rideaux. Journal of Neuroscience
Early auditory and visual spatial representations stayed independent. A shared spatial representation emerged at about 200 ms, after which each modality was pulled toward the other, auditory first and visual later. Behaviorally, people integrated the cues with slight visual over-weighting.
ND-0129 · 2026 · Experimental neuroimaging study
Slow breathing impacts inter-organ dynamics modulating brain function and risk behavior
Huang et al. Neuron
Prolonged exhalation slowed heart rate, raised cardiac parasympathetic activity and increased risky choices. The shift came from greater sensitivity to potential gains, not reduced concern about losses. People with larger parasympathetic increases showed stronger ventromedial prefrontal and precuneus responses to reward.
ND-0130 · 2026 · Observational case-control study
Green space exposure and risk of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis: a population-based case-control study in Northern Italy
Sarti et al. Environmental Health
Greenness and ALS risk followed a U-shape: odds were higher at both low and high greenness and lowest at intermediate levels. The pattern was clearest with NDVI-based indices and held after adjusting for magnetic fields and light at night.
ND-0133 · 2026 · Experimental virtual reality study
Associations of soundscape naturalness and natural-element complexity with short-term psychophysiological restoration in campus green spaces: a virtual reality study
Zhang & Guo. Frontiers in Psychology
Responses aligned most consistently with the soundscape dimension rather than the visual one. Under medium and high soundscape naturalness, medium natural-element complexity produced more favorable patterns than either low or high, consistent with an inverted-U rather than a more-is-better relationship.
ND-0134 · 2026 · Experimental EEG study
Neural signatures of auditory distraction and cognitive demand during working memory performance
Leitner & Wriessnegger. Frontiers in Neuroscience, 20, 1919376
Accuracy rose slightly under distraction alone and under time pressure alone, relative to baseline, and fell only when the two occurred together. Single demands appeared to be absorbed by compensatory effort; the combination was not.
ND-0136 · 2023 · Experimental study
Does a brief virtual dose of an environment affect subjective wellbeing and judgements of perceived restorativeness? Considering the role of place preference
Wilkie, Platt & Trotter. Current Research in Ecological and Social Psychology
Tests whether a short virtual exposure shifts wellbeing and perceived restorativeness, and whether an individual's preferred environment type moderates that response, rather than treating nature as restorative for everyone equally.