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Djebbara, Z. (2020). Expecting space: an enactive and active inference approach to transitions. Aalborg Universitetsforlag. Ph.d.-serien for Det Tekniske Fakultet for IT og Design, Aalborg Universitet The following thesis is an interdisciplinary investigation of architectural transitions cast as a composite of space and experience in time. Dispersed between philosophy, architecture and cognitive neuroscience, the thesis also attempts […]

Djebbara, Z., Brorson Fich, L., Petrini, L., & Gramann, K. (2019). Sensorimotor brain dynamics reflect architectural affordances. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 116(29), 14769-14778. Anticipating meaningful actions in the environment is an essential function of the brain. Such predictive mechanisms originate from the motor system and allow for inferring actions […]

Djebbara, Z., Brorson Fich, L., & Gramann, K. (2019). Understanding Perceptual Experience of Art Using Mobile Brain/Body Imaging. I A. Nijholt (red.), Brain Art: Brain-Computer Interfaces for Artistic Expression (s. 265-282). [9] Springer. This chapter draws on the importance of movement for human perceptualexperience and how it influences brain dynamics. By use of Mobile Brain/Body Imaging (MoBI), artists […]

Fich, L. B., Gimmler, A., Petrini, L., Jelic, A., Djebbara, A. Z., & Jönsson, P. (2018). Does views to nature and the design of spaces matter? A pain stress experiment. I Academy of neuroscience for Architecture: Shared Behavioral Outcomes (s. 68-69). Previously, we have shown that the design of spaces can influence the physiological stress reaction to psychosocial […]

Djebbara, A. Z., Fich, L. B., Petrini, L., & Gramann, K. (2018). Incentive architecture: Investigating spatial affordances in architecture using MoBI and VR. I Conference Proceedings of the 3rd International Mobile Brain/Body Imaging Conference (s. 106-107) Background Sequences of spaces are known to architects to have a certain impact on the perception and affective evaluation of spaces (1). […]

Djebbara, A. Z., Fich, L. B., Petrini, L., & Gramann, K. (2018). Incentive Architecture: Neural Correlates of Spatial Affordances During Transition in Architectural Settings. I Academy of Neuroscience For Architecture: Shared Behavioral Outcome (s. 52-53). Academy of Neuroscience for Architecture. Transitions from one space to another are defined by two spaces and a delineating threshold between them. […]

Fich, L. B., Hansen, Å., Wallergård, M., Djebbara, A. Z., Jönsson, P., & Gimmler, A. (2017). Measuring the embodiment of architecture. I A. Karandinou (red.), Data + Senses: Proceedings of the International Conference ‘Between Data and Senses; Architecture, neuroscience and the Digital Worlds’. (s. 20-23). University of East London. Recently, the term embodiment frequently has turned up in connection […]

Zakaria DjebbaraCand.polyt., PhDPostdoc at Aalborg University My research concerns how architecture impacts human cognition and experience. I do so using ecological setups and neuroimaging analyses of manipulated affordances in architectural transitions. How does the embodied brain respond to affordances? How do affordances of a transition alter expected outcomes? How can transitions impact attention and conscious […]