Source type · 36 records
Experimental study
ND-0005 · 2016 · Controlled crossover study
Associations of Cognitive Function Scores with Carbon Dioxide, Ventilation, and Volatile Organic Compound Exposures in Office Workers
Allen et al. Environmental Health Perspectives
Cognitive scores were higher under lower-VOC and higher-ventilation conditions than under conventional office conditions.
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-0017 · 2026 · Experimental study
Multimodal evidence of temperature and sex effects on sleep: sleep physiology, sleep quality, and next-day performance
Authors per journal record. Building and Environment
Warmer nights reduced sleep continuity and efficiency; autonomic and next-day outcomes differed across temperatures and by sex.
ND-0019 · 2011 · Experimental study
Open-plan office noise: Cognitive performance and restoration
Jahncke et al. Journal of Environmental Psychology
Higher office noise impaired word memory and increased tiredness; restorative content after exposure helped recover perceived energy.
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-0030 · 2015 · Experimental neuroimaging study
Nature experience reduces rumination and subgenual prefrontal cortex activation
Bratman et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
A nature walk reduced self-reported rumination and subgenual prefrontal activation relative to an urban walk.
ND-0032 · 1991 · Experimental study
Stress recovery during exposure to natural and urban environments
Ulrich et al. Journal of Environmental Psychology
Natural scenes were associated with faster or more complete recovery on several affective and physiological measures after stress induction.
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-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-0056 · 2006 · Behavioral experiment
Humans Prefer Curved Visual Objects
Moshe Bar & Maital Neta. Psychological Science
Participants showed a preference for curved over sharp-contoured objects, consistent with a negative bias toward sharp transitions.
ND-0057 · 2007 · Behavioral experiment
The Influence of Ceiling Height: The Effect of Priming on the Type of Processing That People Use
Joan Meyers-Levy & Rui Zhu. Journal of Consumer Research
Higher ceilings were associated with freedom-related concepts and more relational or abstract processing; lower ceilings with more confined concepts and item-specific processing.
ND-0062 · 2015 · Experimental neuroscience study
Grid cell symmetry is shaped by environmental geometry
Krupic et al. Nature
Grid-cell firing patterns were distorted by environmental geometry, showing that spatial coding is shaped by enclosure boundaries rather than being perfectly metric.
ND-0063 · 2020 · Human VR experiment
Deforming the metric of cognitive maps distorts memory
Authors per journal record. Nature Human Behaviour
Spatial memory and distance judgments were systematically distorted in deformed geometry, consistent with geometry-dependent cognitive maps.
ND-0067 · 2017 · Experimental eye-tracking study
Meaning-based guidance of attention in scenes as revealed by meaning maps
Henderson & Hayes. Nature Human Behaviour
Meaning maps predicted where people looked in scenes beyond low-level image salience.
ND-0068 · 2018 · Experimental eye-tracking study
Meaning guides attention in real-world scene images: Evidence from eye movements and meaning maps
Henderson & Hayes. Journal of Vision
Semantic meaning accounted for gaze behavior in scene viewing beyond image-salience models.
ND-0071 · 2018 · Experimental study
Anchoring visual search in scenes: Assessing the role of anchor objects on eye movements during visual search
Boettcher et al. Journal of Vision
Search was guided by anchor objects that predicted where target objects should be located.
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-0093 · 2025 · Experimental neuroscience study
Norepinephrine-mediated slow vasomotion drives glymphatic clearance during sleep
Hauglund et al. Cell
Synchronized norepinephrine and vascular oscillations were linked to glymphatic CSF flow during NREM sleep; zolpidem dampened key dynamics.
ND-0094 · 2026 · Randomized crossover human study
The glymphatic system clears amyloid beta and tau from brain to plasma in humans
Dagum et al. Nature Communications
Normal sleep was associated with morning plasma biomarker patterns consistent with greater glymphatic clearance of amyloid beta and tau than sleep deprivation.
ND-0115 · 2019 · Experimental study
The role of meaning in attentional guidance during free viewing of real-world scenes
Peacock, Hayes & Henderson. Acta Psychologica
Meaning predicted attention allocation during free viewing, reinforcing semantic guidance beyond low-level salience.
ND-0116 · 2018 · Experimental study
Meaning Guides Attention during Real-World Scene Description
Authors per journal record. Scientific Reports
Meaning remained a strong predictor of gaze when participants actively described scenes.
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-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-0125 · 2026 · Closed-loop stimulation experiment
Closed-loop auditory stimulation in phase with slow waves during sleep enhances cerebrospinal fluid flow in humans
Levitt, Zeng, Yang, Jacob & Lewis. Science Translational Medicine
Short pink-noise bursts delivered at slow-wave peaks increased slow waves and caused larger CSF flow waves. The effect depended on phase: sound that missed the peak did not produce it. Widespread hemodynamic waves followed the stimulus.
ND-0127 · 2026 · Experimental psychophysiology study
Location of Nociceptive Stimulus in the Peripersonal Space Impacts Pain Experience
Bucsai, Horváth, Koncz & Köteles. Psychophysiology
Pain ratings changed with arm posture and stimulation site, with a significant interaction, but the effects were very small and did not follow the predicted pattern of more pain closer to the body center. Heart rate and skin conductance did not change with location.
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-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.