The physical campus can be a potent instrument of the educational process. Spatial elements commonly used to plan college and university campuses have a profound impact upon us because their configurations are hard-wired to our species-survival instincts at the neurobiological level. Learn about recent research in brain biology and current investigations into the evolutionary underpinnings of human survival, and how an understanding of the ways humans perceive the physical world can help achieve the ideals of legibility, collegiality, scale, communication and place attachment that campus planners seek.