Yapılı çevrelerde huşu: Mimari stil ve bakış açısının görsel tanıma belleğine etkileri

In recent years, there has been a growing interest in neuroarchitecture. This emerging field integrates neuroscience, psychology, and architecture to investigate the built environment's impact on cognition, emotion, and behavior. Aesthetic and emotional responses to architecture, especially the experience of awe, are becoming more recognized as significant factors influencing cognitive processes, including attention, memory, and decision-making. However, the association between awe, components of architecture, and perceptual perspective is still insufficiently examined. The present study investigated the interactions among awe, architectural style, and viewing angle on visual recognition memory in built environments, employing a 2 (awe: awe-evoking vs. non-awe-evoking) × 2 (style: traditional vs. modern) × 2 (angle: eye-angle vs. low-angle) within-subjects design. Thirty-six participants participated in a visual recognition memory task involving real-life architectural imagery. Analyses of recognition sensitivity (d′) indicated that traditional architecture revealed higher recognition sensitivity than modern architecture, and eye-angle perspectives yielded better sensitivity than low-angle perspectives. Awe alone did not yield a significant main effect; however, it interacted with architectural style, diminishing discriminability for modern architecture while having no effect or a slight improvement on traditional architecture. Analyses of the response criterion (c) revealed that awe, style, and angle independently modulated decision thresholds, with awe‐evoking images eliciting a more liberal bias. This study contributes to the existing literature by establishing the contextual restrictions of awe's mnemonic effects, indicating that architectural stimuli's perceptual and stylistic characteristics moderate its influence on memory. The combination of affective science, neuroarchitecture, and signal detection theory provides a new framework for analyzing the interplay between aesthetic and perceptual factors in shaping memory within the built environment.