I've always been fascinated by architectural transitions; doors, stairs, corridors, corners. They capture the spatio-temporal nature of architecture that goes beyond "styles" and -isms in design. So what happens in the brain when we pass through a transition? www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Environmental psychology often relies on coarse categories that bundle heterogeneous exposures. We propose a minimal, time-scale–aligned approach to feature families to specify environments mechanistically, moving the field from descriptive categories toward testable design hypotheses.

Moving beyond environmental categories in environmental psychology

A growing body of research in environmental psychology demonstrates that environments influence cognition, affect, and mental health. However, environ…

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🚀 New paper! We just took a major step in understanding how architecture shapes cognition. Our paper shows that something as simple as corners in rooms or corridors can shift canonical spatial attention cueing costs. Key method? Mobile Brain/Body Imaging combined with VR! bit.ly/47m6ssV

Turning corners in built environments shifts spatial attention costs

Human attention is typically studied under static laboratory conditions, yet everyday cognition unfolds during active interactions with the built envi…

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Experimentology is out today!!! A group of us wrote a free online textbook for experimental methods, available at experimentology.io - the idea was to integrate open science into all aspects of the experimental workflow from planning to design, analysis, and writing.

🚨 We’re running a short self-report study on how BREATHING interacts with your daily life 🫁🌍 We're struggling to find participants and would truly appreciate your help; it only takes a few minutes. 👉 You can participate here: shorturl.at/rwwXc 🙏 Feel free to share the link with others. Thank you!

🚨 New publication! My PhD student, Dylan Huynh, explored how landmarks and spatial geometry affect episodic memory using immersive VR. We found that people remember better, and learn faster, when the environment around them is distinctive. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Investigating the effects of landmarks on memory performance

The built environment profoundly influences our brain, shaping how we perceive, remember, and interact with the world around us. Far from serving sole…

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RPPW20@rppw.bsky.social · last yr.

@zakdjebbara.bsky.social delivered the final talk of the day which was on architecture and environmental rhythms #RPPW20

I am delighted to announce the upcoming 6th International Mobile Brain/Body Imaging Conference in Berlin, August 26-28, 2026 at the beautiful Hotel Oderberger! More information to follow in the coming weeks. See you in Berlin in 2026! #MobileEEG #MobileBrainImaging #EEG #NIRS #MoBI2026

Our new preprint is out with @stephen-ramanoel.bsky.social and @mobilebrainimaging.bsky.social !!! 🥳 Combining mobile EEG and Virtual Reality our results highlight multifaceted role of theta activity in the RSC during naturalistic human path integration www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Theta activity supports landmark-based correction of naturalistic human path integration

How do humans integrate landmarks to update their spatial position during active navigation task? Using immersive virtual reality and high-density mobile EEG, we investigated the neural underpinnings ...

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This is amazing work!

Martin Seeber@seeber.bsky.social · last yr.

🧠 Our new (NIH funded!) paper reveals how the brain creates internal dynamics during both real- and imagined navigation. We recorded directly from the human hippocampus as participants moved through physical space and when they mentally navigated imagined routes. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Cognitive Maps vs. Visibility 🧠👀 In uncertain environments, how do we make navigation decisions? Is the distance on our mental map more important, or is it the destination's visibility? This study was conducted by architecture students in our science book club! www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Does the visibility of destination matter more than distance in human navigation? A pilot virtual reality study

Navigational decisions depend on both cognitive maps and immediate sensory experiences of the environment. However, when both cognitive maps and immediate sensory experiences are uncertain, it is u...

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Very strange and suspect behaviour from OAP. Some science sleuthing skills in this thread expose their fishy activity. Be careful out there friends!

Klaus Gramann@mobilebrainimaging.bsky.social · last yr.

After pointing out that some might interpret their generous "launch your academic journal" offer as a business opportunity conveniently free from the hassle of credible science, @openaccesspress.nsky.social responded with a second email demanding that I immediately and publicly retract my statement.

This feels like an invitation😁 So... just a heads-up that we are recruiting for 5 positions pretty soon in the area of cognitive/behavioural neuroscience/psychology. Scotland is a beautiful place and we have some amazing science going on here... watch this space!

Grace Lindsay@neurograce.bsky.social · last yr.

And honestly you can capitalize on the US brain drain that is happening/going to happen. Scoop up those American scientists!

Ever wondered whether atmospheres affect your experience of the next space? www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Architectural atmospheres, priming effects and first impressions: a multi-perspective approach integrating self-report assessments and physiological responses

This paper studies the priming effects of architectural atmospheres on our first impressions of space. We applied a multi-perspective approach combining first-person-perspective insights (self-repo...

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HOT OFF THE PRESS - Back in 2019 we started asking ourselves what could you to demonstrate where werable, OPM-MEG technology could fit into naturalistic #neuroskyence. One snag, we'd have to build the system from scratch first... Anyway its 2025, read the paper here -> doi.org/10.1162/imag...

I’m only a few books in here in 2025, but this one is already a good candidate as my favourite this year!

🚨 Call for contributions! We are hosting Dimensions of Radical Embodiment 3 at the University of Southern Denmark, Odense, June 18-21, 2025 We are accepting abstract submissions for talks, posters, and brief ideas! Deadline: March 14, 2025 radicalembodiment3.github.io

🚨 new publication from our lab in @pnas.org ! "Expert navigators deploy rational complexity–based decision precaching for large-scale real-world planning" Entropy of streets & successor representations explain planning speed Colab wth Daniel McNamee at Champalimaud www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

New Preprint! 🧐 We explored the ecological idea of resonance using virtual reality and Mobile Brain/Body Imaging (MOBI). It was challenging both technically and in terms of data analysis, but we are quite happy with the results. Check it out! ⬇️ doi.org/10.31234/osf... 1/

🚨 New fMRI preprint from our lab 🚨 "Brain dynamics during architectural experience: prefrontal and hippocampal regions track aesthetics and spatial complexity" Led by Lara Gregorians with co-authors, Zita Patai, Pablo Fernandez Velasco & Fiona Zisch. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... #neuroskyence

Here is the MIT Tech Review article covering the data collection linked to this new Phd Opportunity at our new International Centre for NeuroArchitecture and NeuroDesign: www.technologyreview.com/2024/09/13/1...

Neuroscientists and architects are using this enormous laboratory to make buildings better

Creating life-size simulations of the real world can reveal how we, and our minds, respond to the environments around us—and could shape the future of architecture.

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Hugo Spiers@hugospiers.bsky.social · 2y ago

🚨 New funded PhD position at UCL 🚨 Funding is provided for a PhD student in our new centre to help work with Fiona Zisch & Sean Hanna to apply agent-based-modelling to analyse the crazy data set from 100+ people navigating a giant maze in PEARL. See details: www.ucl.ac.uk/bartlett/arc...

I mean… awesome timing for my preprint 😂

Kevin Mitchell@wiringthebrain.bsky.social · 2y ago

Neuroethology of natural actions in freely moving monkeys www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... - neural activity in freely moving conditions is richer and more generalizable than in restrained conditions

🧠🏛️ Understanding attentional biases using naturalistic mobile EEG in the built environment. "... active movement through curved corridors reverses the typical spatial attention effect, ... contradicting previous findings from static settings." Turns out mobility matters a great deal!

bioRxiv Neuroscience@biorxiv-neursci.bsky.social · 2y ago

Attentional cueing effects are reversed during locomotion https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.01.07.631651v1

The brain’s action-mode is created by a dedicated action-mode network (AMN) rdcu.be/d5odm. In the brain’s mode continuum, AMN sits opposite DMN’s default-mode, as yin-yang. AMN might be key in pain, apathy, Parkinson’s. New @natrevneurosci.bsky.social w/ Marc Raichle & @gordonneuro.bsky.social 🧵 ⬇️

"Where do I go? Decoding temporal neural dynamics of scene processing and visuospatial memory interactions using CNNs" from @stephen-ramanoel.bsky.social 's group. Affordances during scene perception processed in early stages (100ms) over occipital cortex. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Where do I go? Decoding temporal neural dynamics of scene processing and visuospatial memory interactions using CNNs

Visual scene perception enables rapid interpretation of the surrounding environment by integrating multiple visual features related to task demands and context, which is essential for goal-directed be...

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Post-doc position: AI might often enhance natural stupidity But which factors determine whether AI will lead to smarter humans or more natural stupidity? Let's figure it out 👋 🙏 Please repost so I could find someone crazy enough to work w me in Estonia on this✍️ ✉️ #edusky #psychscisky #neuroAI

‼️New paper‼️ (also a major s-ccs #paper, with Judith Schepers & @benediktehinger.bsky.social) Do you have RTs in your 🧠📈-data? Fixation durations? Movements? How do event-durations affect your data? And how to deal with this? 🧵 ⤵ 1 / 5 biorxiv.org/cgi/content/... 🧪 #EEG #fMRI #neuroimage

🚨 New paper out! 🚨 Adaptive facades for emotionally enriching indoor environments Empirical data supports the hypothesis that dynamic architecture can significantly enhance the emotional experience of indoor environments. t.ly/69Jwq

Adaptive facades for emotionally enriching indoor environments

Buildings are increasingly required to have a restorative effect as people spend a significant portion of their time indoors, inducing them stress. In…

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Excited about this new paper in Elife where we show for the first time resting state patterns contain information about a participants states (e.g. their thoughts) as well as traits (e.g. personality). Led by the awesome @hardigirl.bsky.social postdoc in THINC Lab elifesciences.org/articles/93689

Macro-scale patterns in functional connectivity associated with ongoing thought patterns and dispositional traits

Interactions between attention systems and the default mode network are linked to individual differences in trait and state-level experience and cognition.

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In this new preprint @smfleming.bsky.social and I present a new theory of the functions and evolution of conscious vision. This is a big project: osf.io/preprints/ps.... We'd love to get your comments!