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Impacts of urban green infrastructure on attentional functioning: insights from an fMRI study

open access: yesFrontiers in Psychology, 2023
Multiple studies using various measures, technologies, and participant groups have found that exposure to urban green infrastructure can help alleviate the daily attentional fatigue that human experience.
Xiangrong Jiang   +4 more
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Restoration and the City: The Role of Public Urban Squares

open access: yesFrontiers in Psychology, 2017
Over recent decades, the study of psychological restoration has attracted a considerable amount of interest within and without the boundaries of environmental psychology, with most of the work focused on analyzing restoration in natural contexts. However,
César San Juan   +2 more
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Virtual Reality Greenspaces: Does Level of Immersion Affect Directed Attention Restoration in VR Environments?

open access: yesJ, 2022
Research on attention restoration theory has provided consistent results over the years, and exposure to nature has been found to significantly improve and restore directed attention fatigue. However, rapid urbanisation has made it increasingly difficult
Denise Dillon, Jiaying Cai
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Back to nature? Attention restoration theory and the restorative effects of nature contact in prison [PDF]

open access: yesHealth & Place, 2019
This paper considers the potential for elements of custodial environments to have a restorative effect on those who are incarcerated within them. Considering the applicability and practicality of using Attention Restoration Theory (ART) to frame experience in a custodial context, it interprets results of a survey of prisoners at a large medium-security
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Effects of Soundscape on the Environmental Restoration in Urban Natural Environments

open access: yesNoise and Health, 2017
Context: According to the attention restoration theory, directed attention is a limited physiological resource and is susceptible to fatigue by overuse. Natural environments are a healthy resource, which allows and promotes the restoration of individuals
Yuan Zhang, Jian Kang, Joe Kang
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Role of Restorativeness in Improving the Psychological Well-Being of University Students

open access: yesFrontiers in Psychology, 2021
Many university students experience high levels of study-related fatigue, hence, necessitating opportunities for restoration. They could potentially benefit from campus-based physical activities that provide them with effective restoration breaks and ...
Nurul Ain Nabilla Mohd Yusli   +4 more
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An adjustable wave model for attention restoration

open access: yesFrontiers in Cognition
Attention Restoration Theory has provided a framework for investigating how experiencing natural scenes can be especially helpful in overcoming attentional fatigue.
Richard J. Jagacinski
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Does walking in nature restore directed attention?

open access: yesFrontiers in Psychology, 2015
Aims: Mental fatigue is commonly understood and experienced as mental exhaustion, irritability and foggy thinking. Research indicates mental fatigue is indicative of depleted directed attention resources.
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Folk Festivals as Restorative Environments Based on Attention Restoration Theory–The Roles of Liminal Experience and Timing

open access: yesPsychology Research and Behavior Management, 2023
Xinyi Dai, Shu Tang Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, Jinling Institute of Technology, Nanjing, 210038, People’s Republic of ChinaCorrespondence: Xinyi Dai, Email emma2242020@126.comBackground: Research on the restorative environment has long ...
Dai X, Tang S
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Sustainability pedagogy: Understanding, exploring and internalizing nature’s complexity and coherence

open access: yesFrontiers in Psychology, 2023
Online learning during the COVID-19 pandemic has affected student academic performance as well as mental, physical, and social wellbeing. During a lockdown at the University of Toronto in Canada (September 2020–April 2021), my students expressed an ...
Nicole Spiegelaar
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