A mobile EEG study on the psychophysiological effects of walking and crowding in indoor and outdoor urban environments.

ABSTRACT: Environmental psychologists have established multiple psychological benefits of interaction with natural, compared to urban, environments on emotion, cognition, and attention. Yet, given the increasing urbanisation worldwide, it is equally important to understand how differences within different urban environments influence human psychological experience. We developed a laboratory experiment to examine the psychophysiological effects of the physical (outdoor or indoor) and social (crowded versus uncrowded) environment in healthy young adults, and to validate the use of mobile electroencephalography (EEG) and electrodermal activity (EDA) measurements during active walking. Participants (N = 42) were randomly assigned into a walking or a standing group, and watched six 1-min walk-through vid

SUBMITTER: Mavros P 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9628500 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature