Topic: Built environments

Built environments, including specific aspects of the surroundings designed by humans, influence our daily lives and well-being. The interaction between the environment and mental state can be studied objectively using EEG to discriminate activity related to different surroundings.Three virtual reality environments were designed (1: no nature; 2-3: nature) to study 23 participants who were asked to sit still while recording their EEG signals. To identify changes in cortical activity in different environments, a two-tailed Wilcoxon rank-sum test was applied to each electrode to compare the spec