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Virtual environments (VEs) are increasingly being used as a research platform for investigating human responses to environmental variables. While VEs provide tremendous advantages in terms of variable isolation and manipulation, and ease of data-collection, some researchers have expressed concerns about the ecological validity of VE-based findings; that is, their transferability to real-world contexts. In the […]

This study contributes to the ongoing exploration of methods to enhance the environmental design, cognitive function, and overall wellbeing, primarily focusing on understanding the modulation of human cognitive performance by artificial lighting conditions. In this investigation, participants (N=35) engaged with two distinct architectural contexts, each featuring five different lighting conditions within a virtual environment during

Investigating human responses to light can reveal important information with the potential to improve environmental design, circadian health, cognitive performance, and overall wellbeing. In this study, the researchers used VR immersion, EEG, and a machine-learning approach to better understand the relationship between brain activity and two important lighting properties—the illumination level and the correlated color