An fMRI study of brain response of landscape designers' spatial recognition
Date Issued
2015
Date
2015
Author(s)
Huang, Chia-Yi
Abstract
When the Landscape designers communicate on the design phase, they often use layouts to understand the entire appearance of the environment. Therefore, the spatial recognition is important for us to judge the surrounding environment and object orientation. In recent years, neurological researches have gradually effected the field of landscape design. In the past studies, researcher used psychological perspective points to understand spatial recognition. They confirmed the parietal cortex, occipital area and prefrontal cortex activation effected the process when people judged the sense of space. However, there are limit researches use landscape layout to measure spatial recognition. Therefore, the purpose in this study is to understand the variation of brain in the stage of spatial recognition. We test landscape designers and transform landscape layout into sectional drawing to measure their spatial recognition. The tests includes 16 tasks, and we divided to 2 runs. There is a rectangle plan and a section line on the left in each task, and there are 4 options on the right. Four sectional view on the right were labeled as 1-4 options, and for each task only has one correct option. The experiment participants must answer questions within 30 seconds, otherwise the answer will be considered as wrong. Eventually, the analytical methods will correspond to the correct answer rate and the answer time, to determine the spatial discerning good or bad, and to know the reaction of the brain. The experiment recruit 32 adults, which aged is between 20-30, then according to the answer correct rate to divided into high and low level groups, the results show high activation group is more focused and concentrated, and an low activation group is more dispersion and the activation area is more than the high scores group. High scpres group more activation area is in the left frontal lobe, this area maybe involving the higher order cognitive concepts; and low scores group is more activation in the left occipital region, and this area is involving the main area of the visual reaction zone.
Subjects
functional magnetic resonance imaging
fMRI
landscape architecture
spatial recognition
Type
thesis
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