Functional brain imaging and population-level visits to urban spaces

Ardaman Kaur, André Leite Rodrigues, Sarah Hoogstraten, Diego Andrés Blanco-Mora, Bruno Miranda, Paulo Morgado, Dar Meshi
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Urbanization is increasing worldwide, and neuroscience research can be conducted to better understand our behavior within, and the effects of, urban environments. In line with this, we conducted a neuroimaging study to ascertain whether brain activity in a small sample of individuals can predict population-level visits around an urban space—in our case, Lisbon, Portugal. We used the density of photographs around Lisbon as a proxy measure of these visits, obtaining 160 geotagged images from the social media platform Flickr to use as stimuli. Participants in the USA who had never visited Lisbon viewed these images while we recorded their brain activity. We found that activity within the ventromedial prefrontal cortex predicted the density of photographs around Lisbon, and hence, population-level visits. Our results highlight the role of reward-related brain regions in shaping human behavior within urban environments and can aid in designing cities that promote sustainable living. As the world urbanizes, we need better understanding of how urbanization and urban environments affect people cognitively. This study uses human brain activity, assessed using functional magnetic resonance imaging, to predict the number of visits to various locations within Lisbon, Portugal, when exposed to geotagged images from Flickr.

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功能性脑成像和人口对城市空间的访问
城市化在世界范围内不断增加,神经科学研究可以更好地理解我们在城市环境中的行为及其影响。与此相一致,我们进行了一项神经成像研究,以确定小样本个体的大脑活动是否可以预测城市周围人口水平的访问量——以我们的案例为例,葡萄牙里斯本。我们使用里斯本周围的照片密度作为这些访问的代理度量,从社交媒体平台Flickr获得160个地理标记图像作为刺激。没有去过里斯本的美国参与者观看了这些图像,同时我们记录了他们的大脑活动。我们发现腹内侧前额叶皮层的活动预测了里斯本周围照片的密度,从而预测了人口水平的访问。我们的研究结果强调了与奖励相关的大脑区域在城市环境中塑造人类行为的作用,并有助于设计促进可持续生活的城市。随着世界城市化,我们需要更好地了解城市化和城市环境如何影响人们的认知。这项研究使用了人类的大脑活动,通过功能性磁共振成像来评估,当人们看到来自Flickr的带有地理标记的图片时,预测了葡萄牙里斯本不同地点的访问量。
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