The built environment and mental health of the residents within the city are extremely interconnected. Daily exposures are known to influence psychological processes, having both known and unknown consequences. The study of Gary W. Evans from 2003 points out that personal control, social support and restoration from stress and fatigue in the physical environment directly Read More
Rigorous neuroscience research would question collecting the neuroscience data outdoors, due to too many confounding factors occurring and researchers not being able to control them all. In the sensory exposure research, each participant has to be exposed to the same set of stimuli, which is very difficult if not impossible in an outdoor setting. For Read More
Most people in Asian biggest metropolitan areas live above the ground in multi-storey buildings. Here in Singapore residential blocks can reach up to 50+ floors! Developers try to fit as many housing units on small plots of lands without the consideration of what will be the view from the window. Well, maybe it is about Read More
Highly Contemplative Landscapes alter the brainwaves pattern of the people exposed to them! More about the mechanisms of this phenomenon and how we discovered it can be found in this peer-reviewed paper published recently by Frontiers in Psychiatry, Public Mental Health section. Full text already available for free here! https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyt.2018.00317/full
Many overlaps with what we’re doing here at NeuroLandscape: EEG, nature, mental health, Frederick Law Olmsted, Singapore.”When we spend time in green space, there is something profound going on.”https://www.nationalgeographic.com/magazine/2016/01/call-to-wild/
One of the main goals of NEUROLANDSCAPE is to grow the body of knowledge and awareness about the healing and restorative effect of being immersed in natural environments, and effects of the built elements on our brain. We are continuously running laboratory and on-site experiments that bring us closer to understanding just how the human Read More