A seemingly trivial mental tasks, leave us depleted uranium the reason is that they take advantage of one of the very weak spots, the brain. The city is so overstuffed stimuli that we need to redirect our attention on an ongoing basis so that we do not have distracted the importance of the matters not, such as a flashing neon sign or near the passenger bus cellphone conversation. In the event of such an idea — we are controlled what attention tells in mind — energy and effort. The mind is a powerful Supercomputer, but paying attention to consume the CPU of the Act, its efficacy.
This research is particularly urgent, because for the first time in the history of cities, towns and villages in the majority of the people living in now. Lehrer reports: "for species that evolved into small, Primate tribes, the African savannah live, such a transfer marks a dramatic shift.Instead of living in the wide open spaces, we are full of incorporated into taxis, transport and strangers in the millions of concrete jungles. in recent years it has become clear that such artificial environment has a large impact on our mental and physical health and change how we think about kiihdytinlaitteiston. "
Urban challenges to face a number of communities around the world behind solutions. these changes vary depending on the type of land use and cover, urban waste emissions and climate change, the effects of the urban heat island of global change, biodiversity and hydrosystems, bio-geo-chemical cycles. All cities are tangible ecosystems, their own right, complete the complex interaction between humans and the environment and the far-reaching impact.
On the other hand, the natural settings do not require cognitive effort the same amount of attention to this idea is known. [1] [2] the restoration of the theory or ART and it developed the first Stephen Kaplan, psychologist, University of Michigan. Although long is it is known that human attention is a scarce resource, focusing on the morning makes it difficult to concentrate on in the afternoon. Kaplan hypothesized that the remedial effect of immersion in nature to be
When it has appeared, the nature of the remedial powers of all will benefit from two types of the human brain. [3] [4] attention: attention, which is what we use most often to concentrate the assistance on the job, studies and tests, and involuntary attention, which is what happens when we do not automatically respond to, for example, running water, crying babies, or wild animals.
The problem is that the attention of the wizard, which is a finite resource.All has encountered a belongs to the test or a big project at work fatigue. nature and green space Walks in views of the capture our attention, paying our involuntary attention needed for the rest of the Wizard.
The historically-minded-skeptic might note that does not have any new information or even, in particular, modern such anxieties.Charles Rosenberg, historian of science from Harvard University has undergone some marvelous job documenting our tendency to "pathologize progress."He has demonstrated to the satisfaction of the pace of modern life has always been quickly as harmful and sensitive to the human brain.Influential in the first half of the 19th century, for example, blamed the neurologist George Beard and steam engine telegraph in the event of an epidemic, what he termed "Twitter vulnerability".
Imagine a walk around the Walden Pond, Concord, New Hampshire. around the pond is filled in with the pitch pine forests and hickory trees. Chickadees and Red-tailed Hawks nest in the branches, squirrels and rabbits; skirmish berry bushes. Natural settings are full of objects, which collects automatically to our attention, but without triggering the emotional negative — unlike, say, the mental health of the machine car takaiskujen., which directs attention to could relax deeply, to replenish itself.
"It's not an accident, which is in the middle of Central Park in Manhattan," says Berman. "They need to make the park exists. "
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