Thanks, Hugo! Means a lot coming from you!

I want to thank all participants and the BBAR and BeMoBIL team; Dylan Huynh, Aleks Koselevs, Yiru Chen, Lars Fich and of course, Klaus Gramann for their contribution and efforts! Especially to @mobilebrainimaging.bsky.social for his continuous support!

Conclusion: Naturalistic locomotion with mobile EEG demonstrated that architectural decisions, such as corners, can invert classic attention patterns. Our brains tune to architecture beyond passive background; it is an active part of it.

Surprisingly, environments shape us, just as we shape them.

EEG revealed it too. Both N1 and P3 components were modulated by turn angle — sharper turns reduced amplitudes, especially for congruent cues. Corners redistribute attention, demanding new visuomotor coordination.

Turning angles mattered: effects emerged around 15° (accuracy) and 30° (RTs). This shows that even subtle architectural geometry shapes perception and response — not metaphorically, but literally, through embodied movement.

Behaviour is to some extent shaped by architectural decisions!

In VR, participants navigated corridors with different turning angles. Visual targets appeared either congruent or incongruent with the turn direction. Surprisingly, attention costs flipped — faster, more accurate for incongruent stimuli!

Memory is not just in the head. It’s scaffolded by spatial structure.

This opens new doors in neuroarchitecture, design psychology, and the science of memory.

#Neuroarchitecture #Memory #VR #EmbodiedCognition #EnvironmentalPsychology #Landmarks #EpisodicMemory #SpatialCognition

If we argue that we only sense a limited number of things, and that the totality of information is just the possibility space built from those sensory inputs, then we’re essentially restating empiricism. The idea that thoughts are just combinations of sensory types sounds like an echo of empiricism.

Isn’t that what’s implicitly happening now… Many cognitive neuroscience studies investigate early responses that make up conscious experiences, but interpret them under different frameworks, so they won’t use labels like unconscious.

We found that participants consistently prioritized shorter distances over visible destinations, highlighting that cognitive maps might be more influential than visual appearance in navigation decisions.

In Virtual Reality, freely moving participants navigated a uniform environment (more or less a maze-like environment with no unique features to function as landmarks), with varied distance and visibility to their target.

Congrats George and team! Hope you’re all doing well