environmental design

the creative planning of living and working areas to enhance their habitability. Environmental design may also be applied to the enhancement of recreational areas. Habitability factors range from simple shelter needs to complex and sophisticated environmental aesthetics and conformance factors, such as the use of specific colors of paint or levels of illumination for the optimum performance of tasks.

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Psychology term of the day

May 9th 2024

node of Ranvier

any of successive regularly spaced gaps in the myelin sheath surrounding an axon. The gaps permit the exchange of ions across the plasma membrane at those points, allowing the nerve impulse to leap from one node to the next in so-called saltatory conduction along the axon. [Louis A. Ranvier (1835–1922), French pathologist]