The Neuroscience of Being Human
The Neuroscience of Nature
Why the brain calms in natural environments, how attention restoration theory explains the healing power of the outdoors, and what we lose when we live entirely indoors
1,510-word article with 8 Harvard references.
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We did not evolve for offices, motorways, or shopping centres. The human brain spent roughly two hundred thousand years calibrating itself to grasslands, woodlands, rivers, and open sky, and approximately two hundred years trying to cope with concrete and fluorescent light. The mismatch shows. This fully referenced article explores the neuroscience of nature exposure, from stress physiology and attentional fatigue to the evolutionary framework that explains why a walk in the park does something that a walk down the high street cannot.
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