Mechanism · 3 records
Reward valuation
Environmental features engage preference and valuation systems
family: Neuroaesthetics
ND-0055 · 2013 · fMRI experiment
Impact of contour on aesthetic judgments and approach-avoidance decisions in architecture
Vartanian et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
Curvilinear interiors were more often rated beautiful and recruited anterior cingulate activity during beauty judgments; contour did not significantly alter approach-avoidance decisions.
ND-0106 · 2021 · Review
The neuroaesthetics of architectural spaces
Chatterjee, Coburn & Weinberger. Cognitive Processing
Synthesizes how architectural spaces may engage sensory-motor, emotion-valuation and meaning-knowledge systems.
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.