[HTML][HTML] What happens in your brain when you walk down the street? implications of architectural proportions, biophilia, and fractal geometry for urban science

AA Brielmann, NH Buras, NA Salingaros, RP Taylor - Urban Science, 2022 - mdpi.com
This article reviews current research in visual urban perception. The temporal sequence of
the first few milliseconds of visual stimulus processing sheds light on the historically …

Using eye tracking to Reveal responses to the built environment and its constituents

HJ Rosas, A Sussman, AC Sekely, AA Lavdas - Applied Sciences, 2023 - mdpi.com
Eye-tracking technology has numerous applications in both commercial and research
contexts. The recent introduction of affordable wearable sensors has significantly broadened …

Electrocorticographic evidence of a common neurocognitive sequence for mentalizing about the self and others

KM Tan, AL Daitch, P Pinheiro-Chagas… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Neuroimaging studies of mentalizing (ie, theory of mind) consistently implicate the default
mode network (DMN). Nevertheless, the social cognitive functions of individual DMN regions …

Potential of eye-tracking simulation software for analyzing landscape preferences

U Schirpke, E Tasser, AA Lavdas - PLoS One, 2022 - journals.plos.org
Profound knowledge about landscape preferences is of high importance to support decision-
making, in particular, in the context of emerging socio-economic developments to foster a …

Architectural beauty: Develo** a measurable and objective scale

AA Lavdas, NA Salingaros - Challenges, 2022 - mdpi.com
After decades of being ignored, the concept of beauty, as understood by the non-architect,
has recently been making a comeback in architecture, not so much in the practice itself, as in …

[HTML][HTML] Visual attention software: A new tool for understanding the “subliminal” experience of the built environment

AA Lavdas, NA Salingaros, A Sussman - Applied Sciences, 2021 - mdpi.com
Eye-tracking technology is a biometric tool that has found many commercial and research
applications. The recent advent of affordable wearable sensors has considerably expanded …

Short parietal lobe connections of the human and monkey brain

M Catani, N Robertsson, A Beyh, V Huynh… - cortex, 2017 - Elsevier
The parietal lobe has a unique place in the human brain. Anatomically, it is at the crossroad
between the frontal, occipital, and temporal lobes, thus providing a middle ground for …

[HTML][HTML] Multimodal neurophenomenology of advanced concentration absorption meditation: An intensively sampled case study of Jhana

A Chowdhury, M Bianciardi, E Chapdelaine, OS Riaz… - NeuroImage, 2025 - Elsevier
Using a combination of fMRI, EEG, and phenomenology ratings, we examined the
neurophenomenology of advanced concentrative absorption meditation, namely jhanas …

Comparing feedforward and recurrent neural network architectures with human behavior in artificial grammar learning

A Alamia, V Gauducheau, D Paisios, R VanRullen - Scientific reports, 2020 - nature.com
In recent years artificial neural networks achieved performance close to or better than
humans in several domains: tasks that were previously human prerogatives, such as …

Assessing landscape aesthetic values: Do clouds in photographs influence people's preferences?

E Tasser, AA Lavdas, U Schirpke - Plos one, 2023 - journals.plos.org
Photo-based surveys are widely applied to elicit landscape preferences and to assess
cultural ecosystem services. Variations in weather and light conditions can potentially alter …