Cross-Modal Interior Architecture: A Behavioural Neuroscience Framework for Spatial Design

This book addresses the widespread demand for an organism-centred approach to places that are consistent with psychological, emotional and social needs, based on a transdisciplinary confluence of behavioural neuroscience, interior architecture and spatial design. Ordinary perception is multisensory and based on automatic, spontaneous and often obligatory mental processes. If the design manages multisensory signals so that they are coherent, the brain automatically associates and processes t...