Nature Benefits the Brain; Cities Impair Basic Mental Functions
A new study has researched how city life affects your brain. The results:
Just being in an urban environment, they have found, impairs our basic mental processes. After spending a few minutes on a crowded city street, the brain is less able to hold things in memory, and suffers from reduced self-control…Natural settings, in contrast, don’t require the same amount of cognitive effort.
The study also explains why children with ADD do better in natural settings, as well as why hospital patients recover more quickly when they can see trees from their windows.
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