VISUAL NEUROSCIENCE FOR ARCHITECTURE: SEEKING A NEW EVIDENCE-BASED APPROACH TO DESIGN

摘要

Visual neuroscience provides a critical portal for understanding how humans capture and analyse information about the built environment. Reviewed here are several complementary experimental approaches from visual neuroscience that can support evidence-based architectural and urban design.The data generated by these approaches enable predictions about human responses to the built environment, and research methods are useful for studying these human responses. The research agenda for engaging these approaches in the context of design should be defined not by scientists but by designers, whose contributions will be facilitated by understanding of the strengths and limitations of such methods in formulating research goals and interpreting discoveries.