The Cognitive-Emotional Design and Study of Architectural Space: A Scoping Review of Neuroarchitecture and Its Precursor Approaches

What the study found

Synthesizes neuroarchitecture with earlier environmental-psychology and psychophysiology approaches.

Limitations

Broad scope; primary studies vary strongly in ecological validity and measurement quality.

Neurodesign interpretation

The field becomes stronger when neuroscience is layered onto decades of human-environment research rather than used to rebrand old questions.

Possible design implications

Do not treat biometrics as replacing environmental psychology; combine both traditions.

Why it stays in the corpus

Retain as a bridge between older and newer research traditions.

Study design

Scoping review

Population

Humans across empirical literature

Setting

Built, image and immersive environments

Field

Neuroarchitecture

Mechanism

Cognitive-emotional response to space

Spatial variable

Architectural spatial variables

Keywords

neuroarchitecture, emotion, cognition, psychophysiology