Affordances for Spatial Navigation

Gregorians, Lara; Spiers, Hugo J.

doi:10.1007/978-3-031-08629-8_10

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“…Two distinct cognitive-emotional processes play a role during spatial navigation prompted when perceiving an entryway. One is the line-of-sight attraction from a distance (navigational affordance) [117][118][119][120], which contributes to the cognitive coherence of the space in front of an entrance. The other is the experience of crossing the entrance itself, an act of cognitive and emotional transition.…”

Section: The Psychological Importance Of An Entrance Transitionmentioning

confidence: 99%

The “Modern” Campus: Case Study in (Un)Sustainable Urbanism

Mehaffy,

Salingaros,

Lavdas

2023

Sustainability

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The design of campuses, like other aspects of contemporary environmental design, must be reassessed in light of the challenge of sustainability. This paper considers the “modern” campus design typology (including business campuses, commercial districts, hospitals, and schools) as a design paradigm for pedestrian public space, with implications for human flourishing and well-being. Its findings point to a serious problem: while the foundational design theories of a century ago have been widely critiqued as an obsolete way of thinking about cities, human nature, biological nature, and even the nature of mathematical and physical structures, we find that, in the case of campuses, the pervasive influence of these obsolete theories can still be seen in practice. Specifically, a new “techno-modernist” aesthetic offers visually exciting new “neoplastic” forms but is built on essentially the same discredited concepts of urban space. We propose a more directly human-oriented design methodology to promote the well-being of occupants, and improve outcomes for creative development, education, and health. This analysis resurrects tested traditional design tools and validates them through scientific findings from mathematics and neuroscience. It also adopts the older “design pattern” methodology of Christopher Alexander by linking it to biophilia and neuro-design.

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Section: The Psychological Importance Of An Entrance Transitionmentioning

confidence: 99%

The “Modern” Campus: Case Study in (Un)Sustainable Urbanism

Mehaffy,

Salingaros,

Lavdas

2023

Sustainability

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“…This is arguably substantially different from the flow of input that people experience when actively navigating the world. Future work should ideally combine more immersive tasks (Gregorians and Spiers, 2022;Zhang and Gallant, 2020) with rich characterizations of the visual inputs that better approximate our daily navigational experiences (Greene et al, 2024;Venkataramanan et al, 2024) using a range of computational models, in order to pinpoint the visuo-semantic transformations underlying human perception of scene affordances.…”

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Distinct representation of locomotive action affordances in human behavior, brains and deep neural networks

Bartnik,

Sartzetaki,

Puigseslloses Sanchez

et al. 2024

Preprint

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Humans can use a variety of actions to navigate their immediate environment. To decide how to move, the brain must determine which navigational actions are afforded by the current environment. Here, we demonstrate that human visual cortex represents navigational action affordances of complex natural scenes. Behavioral annotations of possible navigational actions (e.g., walking, cycling) show that humans group environments into distinct affordance clusters using at least three separate dimensions. Representational similarity analysis of multi-voxel fMRI responses in scene-selective visual cortex regions shows that perceived affordances are represented in a manner that is only partly explained by other scene properties (e.g. contained objects), and independent of the task performed in the scanner. Visual features extracted from deep neural networks (DNNs) pretrained on a range of other visual understanding tasks fail to fully account for behavioral and neural representations of affordances. While DNN predictions of human-perceived affordances improve when training directly on affordance labels, the best human-model alignment is observed when visual DNN features are paired with rich linguistic representation in a multi-modal large-language model. These results uncover a new type of representation in the human brain that reflect action affordances independent from other scene properties.

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“…Table 1B, provides some of the methods for (re-)creating, controlling, and manipulating environments in the labboth digitally and physically. [30] and [74]. Graph theoretic analysis has been applied to street networks following a 'space syntax' approach based in architecture and urban data science.…”

Section: Taking the Real-world Into The Labmentioning

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“…Taking the real-world into the lab. (A-F) Adapted from[30] and[74]. Graph theoretic analysis has been applied to street networks following a 'space syntax' approach based in architecture and urban data science.…”

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Ecological Brain: Reframing the Study of Human Behaviour and Cognition

Vigliocco¹,

Convertino²,

Felice³

et al. 2023

Preprint

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The last decade has seen substantial advances in the capacity to record behaviour and neural activity in humans in real-world settings, to simulate real-world situations in laboratory settings and to apply sophisticated analyses to large-scale data. Along with these developments, the call for ecological validity (increased use of naturalistic materials and more real-world-like settings for experiments) has been renewed. Here we sketch a framework for real-world research where previous approaches are integrated into a cyclic process of “bringing the lab to the real world” (recording behavioural and neural responses in their real-world settings) and “bringing the real-world to the lab” (manipulating the environments in which behaviours occur in the lab) that allows for discovery and theory development.

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Affordances for Spatial Navigation

Cited by 9 publications

References 45 publications

The “Modern” Campus: Case Study in (Un)Sustainable Urbanism

The “Modern” Campus: Case Study in (Un)Sustainable Urbanism

Distinct representation of locomotive action affordances in human behavior, brains and deep neural networks

Ecological Brain: Reframing the Study of Human Behaviour and Cognition

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