A5090952811- Functional Brain Connectivity Studies
- Urban Green Space and Health
- Neural dynamics and brain function
- Mental Health Research Topics
- EEG and Brain-Computer Interfaces
- Olfactory and Sensory Function Studies
- Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies
- Aesthetic Perception and Analysis
- Visual Attention and Saliency Detection
- Color perception and design
- Cognitive Abilities and Testing
- Visual perception and processing mechanisms
- Health, Environment, Cognitive Aging
- Optical Imaging and Spectroscopy Techniques
- Face Recognition and Perception
- Sleep and related disorders
- Advanced MRI Techniques and Applications
- Heart Rate Variability and Autonomic Control
- Non-Invasive Vital Sign Monitoring
- Land Use and Ecosystem Services
- Neonatal and fetal brain pathology
- Place Attachment and Urban Studies
- Personality Disorders and Psychopathology
- Fetal and Pediatric Neurological Disorders
- Glioma Diagnosis and Treatment
University of Michigan
2022-2025
Michigan Medicine
2024
University of Chicago
2014-2023
Michigan United
2022
Chicago Department of Public Health
2020
University of Illinois Chicago
2020
Google (United States)
2017
Abstract Studies have shown that natural environments can enhance health and here we build upon work by examining the associations between comprehensive greenspace metrics health. We focused on a large urban population center (Toronto, Canada) related two domains combining high-resolution satellite imagery individual tree data from Toronto with questionnaire-based self-reports of general perception, cardio-metabolic conditions mental illnesses Ontario Health Study. Results multiple...
Previous research has shown that interacting with natural environments vs. more urban or built can have salubrious psychological effects, such as improvements in attention and memory. Even viewing pictures of nature produce similar effects. A major question is: What is it about produces these benefits? Problematically, there are many differing qualities between environments, making difficult to narrow down the dimensions may lead benefits. In this study, we set out uncover visual features...
Previous research has shown that viewing images of nature scenes can have a beneficial effect on memory, attention and mood. In this study we aimed to determine whether the preference natural versus man-made is driven by bottom-up processing low-level visual features nature. We used participants' ratings perceived naturalness as well aesthetic for 307 with varied urban content. then quantified ten image each (a combination spatial color properties). These were predict in images, decompose...
In the following experiments, we examined whether perceptions of naturalness in architecture are linked to objective visual patterns, and investigated how natural patterns influence aesthetic evaluations architectural scenes. Experiment 1 revealed that explained over half variance scene ratings. 2, preference ratings were found relate closely architecture. 3, participants completed an image arrangement task, multidimensional scaling (MDS) analysis was performed on data determine underlying...
Interactions with natural environments and nature-related stimuli have been found to be beneficial cognitive performance, in particular on executive tasks high demands directed attention processes. However, results vary across different studies. The aim of the present paper was evaluate effects nature vs. urban performance all our published new/unpublished studies testing interactions urban/built control environments, an executive-functioning test attention-the backwards digit span (BDS)...
The human cerebral cortex contains groups of areas that support sensory, motor, cognitive, and affective functions, often categorized into functional networks. These networks show stronger internal weaker external connectivity (FC), with FC profiles more similar within the same network. Previous studies have shown these develop from nascent forms before birth to their mature, adult-like structures in childhood. However, analyses rely on adult network definitions. This study assesses...
Disorderly environments are linked to disorderly behaviors. Broken windows theory (Wilson & Kelling, 1982), an influential of crime and rule-breaking, assumes that scene-level social disorder cues (e.g., litter, graffiti) cause people reason they can get away with breaking rules. But what if part the story is not about such complex reasoning? Recent research suggests basic visual may be sufficient encourage rule-breaking behavior. To test this hypothesis, we first conducted a set experiments...
Abstract Can viewing others experiencing stress create a “contagious” physiological response in the observer? To investigate second-hand stress, we first created stimulus set of videos, which featured participants speaking under either minimal high or while recovering from stress. We then recruited second to watch these videos. All (speakers and observers) were monitored via electrocardiogram. Cardiac activity observers watching videos was analyzed compared that speakers. Furthermore,...
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Despite being intuitive, cognitive effort has proven difficult to define quantitatively. Here, we proposed study by investigating the degree which brain deviates from its default state, where activity is scale-invariant. Specifically, measured such deviations examining changes in scale-invariance of as a function task difficulty and posited suppression proxy for exertion effort. While there some fMRI evidence supporting this proposition, EEG investigations on matter are scant, despite signal...
Sustained attention (SA) and working memory (WM) are critical processes, but the brain networks supporting these abilities in development unknown. We characterized functional architecture of SA WM 9- to 11-year-old children adults. First, we found that adult network predictors generalized predict individual differences fluctuations youth. A model predicted performance both across within children-and captured later recognition memory-but underperformed youth relative next connections...
Previous research has investigated ways to quantify visual information of a scene in terms processing hierarchy, i.e., making sense environment by segmentation and integration elementary sensory input. Guided this research, studies have developed categories for low-level features (e.g., edges, colors), high-level (scene-level entities that convey semantic such as objects), how models those predict aesthetic preference naturalness. For example, Kardan et al. (2015a), 52 participants provided...
Resting-state functional connectivity (rsFC) measured with fMRI has been used to characterize brain maturation in typically and atypically developing children adults. However, its reliability utility for predicting development infants toddlers is less well understood. Here, we use data from the Baby Connectome Project study measure uniqueness of rsFC predict age this sample (8-to-26 months old; n = 170). We observed medium within-session infant our sample, found that individual toddler’s...
Abstract Socioeconomic resources (SER) calibrate the developing brain to current context, which can confer or attenuate risk for psychopathology across lifespan. Recent multivariate work indicates that SER levels powerfully relate intrinsic functional connectivity patterns entire brain. Nevertheless, neuroscientific meaning of these widespread neural differences remains poorly understood, despite its translational promise early identification, targeted intervention, and policy reform. In...
How eye movements reflect underlying cognitive processes during scene viewing has been a topic of considerable theoretical interest. In this study, we used eye-movement features and their distributions over time to successfully classify mental states as indexed by the behavioral task performed participants. We recorded from 72 participants performing 3 scene-viewing tasks: visual search, memorization, aesthetic preference. To these tasks, statistical (mean, standard deviation, skewness)...
Natural environments have powerful aesthetic appeal linked to their capacity for psychological restoration. In contrast, disorderly are aesthetically aversive, and various detrimental effects. But in our research, we repeatedly found that natural perceptually disorderly. What could explain this paradox? We present 3 competing hypotheses: the preference naturalness is more than aversion disorder (the nature-trumps-disorder hypothesis); trivial contexts harmless-disorder preferred...
Abstract Sleep is critical to a variety of cognitive functions and insufficient sleep can have negative consequences for mood behavior across the lifespan. An important open question how duration related functional brain organization which may in turn impact cognition. To characterize networks youth young adulthood, we analyzed data from publicly available Human Connectome Project (HCP) dataset, includes n ‐back task‐based resting‐state fMRI adults aged 22–35 years (task = 896; rest 898). We...
Adolescence is a period of growth in cognitive performance and functioning. Recently, data-driven measures brain-age gap, which can index decline older populations, have been utilized adolescent data with mixed findings. Instead using approach, here we assess the maturation status brain functional landscape early adolescence by directly comparing an individual's resting-state connectivity (rsFC) to canonical early-life adulthood communities. Specifically, hypothesized that degree youth's...
The cerebral cortex comprises discrete cortical areas that form during development. Accurate area parcellation in neuroimaging studies enhances statistical power and comparability across studies. formation of is influenced by intrinsic embryonic patterning as well extrinsic inputs, particularly through postnatal exposure. Given the substantial changes brain volume, microstructure, functional connectivity first years life, we hypothesized 1-to-3-year-olds would exhibit major differences from...