Immersion in nature enhances neural indices of executive attention.

ABSTRACT: There is conjecture that our modern urban environments place high demand on our attentional resources, which can become depleted over time and cause mental fatigue. Natural environments, on the other hand, are thought to provide relief from this demand and allow our resources to be replenished. While these claims have been assessed with self-report and behavioral measures, there is limited understanding of the neural mechanisms underlying these attentional benefits. The present randomized controlled trial fills this gap in the literature by using electroencephalography to explore three aspects of attention-alerting, orienting, and executive control-from a behavioral and neural perspective. Participants (N = 92) completed the Attention Network Task before and after either a 40-min walk in n

SUBMITTER: McDonnell AS 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10803324 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature