Cold and warm coloured classrooms. Effects on students’ attention and memory measured through psychological and neurophysiological responses
| Autor: | Llinares Millán, María Del Carmen, Higuera-Trujillo, Juan Luis, Serra, Juan |
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| Rok vydání: | 2021 |
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Neuroarchitecture
Environmental Engineering Geography Planning and Development 0211 other engineering and technologies 02 engineering and technology 010501 environmental sciences 01 natural sciences Neurophysiological responses Arousal Memory Psychological responses Memory functions Attention 021108 energy Classroom colours 0105 earth and related environmental sciences Civil and Structural Engineering Hue Virtual classroom EXPRESION GRAFICA ARQUITECTONICA Architectural design Cognition Building and Construction Neurophysiology Variety (cybernetics) ORGANIZACION DE EMPRESAS Psychology Cognitive psychology |
| Zdroj: | RiuNet. Repositorio Institucional de la Universitat Politécnica de Valéncia instname |
| ISSN: | 0360-1323 |
| Popis: | [EN] Mounting evidence indicates that the colour hue of classroom walls influences student performance. However, the effect of this design parameter has not hitherto been simultaneously assessed for two key cognitive learning functions of attention and memory. The objective of the present study is to analyse the impact that warm and cold hue coloured classroom walls have on the cognitive attention and memory functions of university students. To this end, the attention and memory performance of 160 participants was evaluated in 12 warm and 12 cold hue colour settings in a virtual classroom. Their performance was quantified through psychological (attention and memory tasks) and neurophysiological (heart rate variability and electroencephalogram) metrics related to the cognitive functions analysed. The results showed that cold hue colours increase arousal and improve performance in attention and memory tasks; and design guidelines can be established. Furthermore, correlations were observed between the psychological and neurophysiological metrics, which represents an important advance in the neuroarchitecture discipline. The variety of implications of the results makes this work useful for architectural design professionals, researchers, and policymakers working on improving learning spaces This work was supported by the Ministerio de Economia, Industria y Competitividad of Spain (Project BIA2017-86157-R). The second author is supported by funding from Ministerio de Economia, Industria y Competitividad of Spain (PRE2018-084051) and the Academy of Neuroscience for Architecture (John Paul Eberhard ANFA Fellow) |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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