Our brain does not process incoming sensory stimuli mechanistically. Instead the current
brain state modulates our reaction to a stimulus. This modulation can be investigated by …

How we perceive our environment affects the way we feel and behave. The impressions of
our ambient environment are influenced by its entire spectrum of physical characteristics …

Over the past 10 years, there has been growing recognition that emotions are central to
academic achievement strivings as well as students' and teachers' personality development …

Previous studies have shown that building, social and personal factors can influence one's
perceived health and comfort. The aim of the underlying study was to get a better …

It is argued that during ongoing visual perception, the brain is generating top-down
predictions to facilitate, guide and constrain the processing of incoming sensory input. Here …

Despite policy directives, standards and guidelines, indoor environmental quality is still poor
in many cases. The Healthy Indoor Environment, winner of the 2016 IDEC Book Award, aims …

Facial expressions are subtle cues, central for communication and conveying emotions in
mammals. Traditionally, facial expressions have been classified as a whole (eg happy …

Relationships between indoor building conditions and wellbeing of occupants are complex;
many indoor stressors can exert their effects additively or through complex interactions. It …

Recent research has started to explore the role of emotions as outcomes and antecedents of
achievement goals [Linnenbrink, 2007; Linnenbrink & Pintrich, 2002; Pekrun, Elliot, & Maier …

Background Based on introspectionist, semantic, and psychophysiological experimental
frameworks, it has long been assumed that all affective states derive from two independent …