1. Cognitive responses to urban environments: behavioral responses in lab and field conditions.
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Hollander, Justin B., Levering, Alexandra Purdy, Lynch, Lauren, Foster, Veronica, Perlo, Sarah, Jacob, Robert J. K., Taylor, Holly A., and Brunyé, Tad T.
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URBAN ecology (Sociology) ,BUILT environment ,URBAN planning ,COGNITION ,ARCHITECTURAL design - Abstract
Urban design context continually influences cognition and behavior and shapes human responses for pedestrians. Researchers have studied established the role of context well (Sussman and Hollander 2015; Robinson and Pallasmaa 2015; Zeisel et al. 2003; Wells et al. 2007), but less is known about how variations in the built environment impact behavior performance. The book, Cognitive Architecture: Designing for How We Respond to the Built Environment (Sussman and Hollander 2015), argues that a set of four architectural principles might explain impacts on human mental states. This study uses those four principles to provide a framework to empirically test the relationship between variations in the built environment and behavior performance using a go–no-go task. The findings suggest that context matters and the paper offers key implications for urban design theory and practice. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2021
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