Green urban environments enhance brain-to-brain synchrony.

ABSTRACT: Previous studies have demonstrated that people focus on fewer specific features of natural environments compared to built environments. This may imply that neural activity stronger converge across individuals in green environments than in built environments, where people may focus very differently on diverse and often overloading urban stimulation. We hypothesized that the similarity of mental states across individuals should increase during exposure to green environments compared to built environments. Thus, we conducted an electroencephalography study in which we measured the correlation of neural responses among 30 participants using the inter-subject correlation (ISC). Using the ISC method, we calculated the similarity of the brain activity of a group of people as they were exposed to

SUBMITTER: Kerimova N 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12695875 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature