XSCAPE Project

Largest ever ecological experiment on embodied visual perception The EU-funded XSCAPE project will bring together a team from the areas of archaeology, vision science and cognitive philosophy to explore whether the worlds we build alter our own minds and how we process information. The ERC-funded team will investigate whether our buildings, roads and artefacts change patterns of thought and attention. Slated to conduct a series of 41 global case studies, the project will use a set of materials – from different cultures and old and new settings – to explore materiality-driven cognitive change. XSCAPE will use a new synergistic methodology that combines multiple real-world case studies with the latest visual neuroscience, and simple agent-based simulations.