Dr Lara GREGORIANS

Lara is a postdoctoral researcher in the Architectural Cognition in Practice group. She holds a PhD from UCL, in which she sought to bridge the worlds of Spatial Cognition and Neuroarchitecture by exploring architectural experience as a combination of spatial, aesthetic and affective processing.

Lara is experienced in analyzing subjective, physiological and neural responses to spaces, having run real-world behavioral studies and fMRI-neuroimaging studies on architectural experience.

As part of the ACP group, Lara will be carrying out empirical research exploring person-environment interactions, as well as collaborating with industry partners to work on translating architectural cognition research into practice.

Research Interests:

• Architectural experience
• Spatial cognition
• Neuro-architecture
• Evidence-based design

Publications:

• external pagecall_madeGregorians, L., Velasco, P. F., Zisch, F., & Spiers, H. J. (2022). Architectural experience: Clarifying its central components and their relation to core affect with a set of first-person-view videos. Journal of Environmental Psychology, 82, 101841.
  
  
• Gregorians, L., & Spiers, H. J. (2022). Affordances for spatial navigation. Affordances in Everyday Life: A Multidisciplinary Collection of Essays, 99-112.
  
  
• Vigliocco, G., Convertino, L., De Felice, S., Gregorians, L., Kewenig, V., Mueller, M. A., ... & Spiers, H. (2023). Ecological Brain: Reframing the Study of Human Behaviour and Cognition. [preprint]

Education:

• PhD, Spatial Cognition Lab, UCL, 2018-23
• MSc, Health Wellbeing and Sustainable Buildings, UCL, 2017-18
• BASc, Arts & Sciences, UCL, 2012-16

Social Media

• LinkedIn: external pageLara Gregorianscall_made
• X: external page@laragregorianscall_made