People spend considerable time within built environments. In this study, we tested two hypotheses about the relationship between people and built environments. First, aesthetic responses to architectural interiors reduce to a few key psychological dimensions that are sensitive to design features. Second, these psychological dimensions evoke specific neural signatures. In Experiment 1, participants (n = 798) rated 200 images of architectural interiors on 16 aesthetic response measures. Using Psychometric Network Analysis (PNA) and Principal Components Analysis (PCA), we identified three components that explained 90% of the variance in ratings: coherence (ease with which one organizes and comprehends a scene), fascination (a scene's informational richness and generated interest), and hominess (extent to which a scene reflects a personal space). Whereas coherence and fascination are well-established dimensions in response to natural scenes and visual art, hominess emerged as a new dimension related to architectural interiors. In Experiment 2 (n = 614), the PCA results were replicated in an independent sample, indicating the robustness of these three dimensions. In Experiment 3, we reanalyzed data from an fMRI study in which participants (n = 18) made beauty judgments and approach-avoidance decisions when viewing the same images. Parametric analyses demonstrated that, regardless of task, the degree of fascination covaried with neural activity in the right lingual gyrus. In contrast, coherence covaried with neural activity in the left inferior occipital gyrus only when participants judged beauty, whereas hominess covaried with neural activity in the left cuneus only when they made approach-avoidance decisions. Importantly, this neural activation did not covary in relation to global image properties including self-similarity and complexity scores. These results suggest that the visual brain harbors sensitivities to psychological dimensions of coherence, fascination, and hominess in the context of architectural interiors. Furthermore, valuation of architectural processing in visual cortices varies by dimension and task.

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对建筑内部的心理和神经反应。

人们在构建环境中花费大量时间。在这项研究中，我们测试了关于人与建筑环境之间关系的两个假设。首先，对建筑内部的审美反应减少到一些对设计特征敏感的关键心理维度。其次，这些心理维度唤起了特定的神经特征。在实验1中，参与者（n = 798）对16种审美反应进行了200幅建筑室内图像评级。使用心理测验网络分析（PNA）和主成分分析（PCA），我们确定了三个成分，这些成分可以解释90％的评分差异：连贯性（便于人们组织和理解场景），迷恋（场景的信息丰富度和产生性）兴趣）和忠诚度（场景反映个人空间的程度）。连贯性和魅力是对自然风光和视觉艺术的既定维度，而友善则是与建筑内部相关的新维度。在实验2中（n = 614），PCA结果被复制到一个独立的样本中，表明这三个维度的鲁棒性。在实验3中，我们重新分析了一项功能磁共振成像研究的数据，在该研究中，参与者（n = 18）在查看相同图像时做出了美感判断和避免进近的决定。参数分析表明，无论执行何种任务，右舌回的着迷程度都与神经活动相关。相比之下，只有当参与者判断出美感时，左下枕回的相干性才与神经活动相关。而只有当他们做出避免进入的决定时，尊敬才与左楔骨神经活动相关。重要的是，这种神经激活与包括自相似性和复杂性评分在内的全局图像特性无关。这些结果表明，视觉大脑对建筑内部环境中的连贯，迷恋和友善的心理维度具有敏感性。此外，视觉皮层中的建筑过程评估因尺寸和任务而异。建筑室内环境中的友善与友善 此外，视觉皮层中的建筑过程评估因尺寸和任务而异。建筑室内环境中的友善与友善 此外，视觉皮层中的建筑过程评估因尺寸和任务而异。