How buildings affect our brains and mental health
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Ever wondered why you function
Ever wondered why you function better in certain spaces and not others? University of South Australia researcher Dr Isabella Bower has recently won a prestigious NOMIS and Science Young Explorer Award for her ongoing research into how building design affects our brain and mental health. In this video she discusses how using virtual reality to ‘transport’ people to different rooms and spaces, the brain’s response can be measured via electrodes attached to the scalp.
Virtual reality experiments are backed up by a recent paper published this week, analysing examination data from 14,500 university students over an eight-year period, who sat their exams in rooms with different ceiling heights. In large rooms with high ceilings, exam results were consistently lower than expected, when judged against the students’ normal coursework. Put simply, performing tasks in large spaces appears to be more challenging.
Dr Bower says it is difficult to say whether this is due to the scale of the room itself, or factors such as student density or poor insulation, but her research team hopes universities and schools take note of the findings and consider examination spaces more closely.
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Virtual reality experiments are backed up by a recent paper published this week, analysing examination data from 14,500 university students over an eight-year period, who sat their exams in rooms with different ceiling heights. In large rooms with high ceilings, exam results were consistently lower than expected, when judged against the students’ normal coursework. Put simply, performing tasks in large spaces appears to be more challenging.
Dr Bower says it is difficult to say whether this is due to the scale of the room itself, or factors such as student density or poor insulation, but her research team hopes universities and schools take note of the findings and consider examination spaces more closely.
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https://www.unisa.edu.au/
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#UniversityOfSouthAustralia #UniSA
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