Walking through Architectural Spaces: The Impact of Interior Forms on Human Brain Dynamics

What the study found

Brain dynamics changed as participants moved through different interior forms, supporting an embodied rather than purely visual account of architectural experience.

Limitations

Small experimental sample; VR and EEG movement artifacts; specific room manipulations.

Neurodesign interpretation

Architecture is temporally sampled through movement. The brain response to a corridor-to-room transition may matter more than a static image of either space.

Possible design implications

Study spaces while people move through them, not only while seated and viewing still images.

Why it stays in the corpus

Retain as a foundational embodied-neuroarchitecture experiment.

Study design

Mobile EEG experiment

Population

Adult participants

Setting

Immersive VR with physical walking

Field

Neuroarchitecture

Mechanism

Embodied navigation, sensorimotor prediction, EEG dynamics

Spatial variable

Interior form during locomotion

Keywords

embodiment, walking, VR, EEG, interior form