Toward Evidence-Based Neuroarchitecture: A Systematic Mapping and Framework for Immersive Spatial Cognition

What the study found

Maps the human empirical field and shows frequent reliance on questionnaires, behavior and EEG, with lower use of HRV, fMRI and fNIRS.

Limitations

Accepted/current publication; field remains heterogeneous and replication is limited.

Neurodesign interpretation

A mature Neurodesign method should not ask 'which biometric can we add?' It should ask which mechanism requires which measurement and whether the spatial manipulation is specific enough to interpret.

Possible design implications

Use the measurement-distribution data to avoid copying the field's narrowest habits.

Why it stays in the corpus

Retain as the current map of immersive spatial cognition methods.

Study design

Systematic mapping; 121-study final corpus

Population

Humans and broader neuroarchitecture literature

Setting

VR and built-space studies

Field

Neuroarchitecture, spatial cognition

Mechanism

Immersion, spatial cognition, psychophysiology

Spatial variable

Immersive architectural environments

Keywords

immersive, spatial cognition, VR, EEG, systematic mapping