“Seeing” and “feeling” architecture: how bodily self-consciousness alters architectonic experience and affects the perception of interiors
Frontiers in Psychology June 25, 2013 Isabella Pasqualini, J. Llobera, Olaf Blanke
Over the centuries architectural theory evolved several notions of embodiment, proposing in the nineteenth and twentieth century that architectonic experience is related to physiological responses of the observer. Recent advances in the cognitive neuroscience of embodiment (or bodily self-consciousness) enable empirical studies of architectonic embodiment. Here, we investigated how architecture...