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Downloaded from on April 6, 2013 - Published by BJSM Online First, published on March 6, 2013 as 10.1136/bjsports-2012-091877 Short report The urban brain: analysing outdoor physical activity with mobile EEG Peter Aspinall,1 Panagiotis Mavros,2,3 Richard Coyne,2 Jenny Roe1 1School of Built Environment, ABSTRACT effects on heart rate,3 perceived stress4 5 and salivary Heriot-Watt University, Background Researchers in environmental psychology, cortisol.6 Edinburgh, UK health studies and urban design are interested in the Brain studies are increasingly relevant as the 2Edinburgh School of 7 Architecture and Landscape relationship between the environment, behaviour settings development of affective computing and brain– Architecture, The University of and emotions. In particular, happiness, or the presence computer interfaces (BCI) enable researchers and Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK of positive emotional mindsets, broadens an individual’s designers to measure brain activity in environmen- 3Center for Advanced Spatial thought-action repertoire with positive benefits to tal settings.8 Although functional brain imaging Analysis, The Bartlett, UCL, London, UK physical and intellectual activities, and to social and has been used for subjects v