Nature benefits revisited: Differences in gait kinematics between nature and urban images disappear when image types are controlled for likeability.

Exposure to urban environments requires more cognitive processing than exposure to nature; an effect that can even be measured analysing gait kinematics whilst people walk towards photographic images. Here, we investigated whether differences in cognitive load between nature and urban scenes are sti...

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Autores principales:	Daria Burtan, Jeremy F Burn, Ute Leonards
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Publicado:	Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2021
Materias:	Medicine R Science Q
Acceso en línea:	https://doaj.org/article/ce1c6ccc8047465bb6e8b20aa0f97fb0
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spelling	oai:doaj.org-article:ce1c6ccc8047465bb6e8b20aa0f97fb02021-12-02T20:19:25ZNature benefits revisited: Differences in gait kinematics between nature and urban images disappear when image types are controlled for likeability.1932-620310.1371/journal.pone.0256635https://doaj.org/article/ce1c6ccc8047465bb6e8b20aa0f97fb02021-01-01T00:00:00Zhttps://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0256635https://doaj.org/toc/1932-6203Exposure to urban environments requires more cognitive processing than exposure to nature; an effect that can even be measured analysing gait kinematics whilst people walk towards photographic images. Here, we investigated whether differences in cognitive load between nature and urban scenes are still present when scenes are matched for their liking scores. Participants were exposed to images of nature and urban scenes that had been matched a priori for their liking scores by an independent participant sample (n = 300). Participants (N = 44) were either asked to memorise each image during walking or to rate each image for its visual discomfort after each walk. Irrespective of experimental task, liking score but not environment type predicted gait velocity. Moreover, subjective visual discomfort was predictive of gait velocity. The positive impact of nature described in the literature thus might, at least in part, be due to people's aesthetic preferences for nature images.Daria BurtanJeremy F BurnUte LeonardsPublic Library of Science (PLoS)articleMedicineRScienceQENPLoS ONE, Vol 16, Iss 8, p e0256635 (2021)
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description	Exposure to urban environments requires more cognitive processing than exposure to nature; an effect that can even be measured analysing gait kinematics whilst people walk towards photographic images. Here, we investigated whether differences in cognitive load between nature and urban scenes are still present when scenes are matched for their liking scores. Participants were exposed to images of nature and urban scenes that had been matched a priori for their liking scores by an independent participant sample (n = 300). Participants (N = 44) were either asked to memorise each image during walking or to rate each image for its visual discomfort after each walk. Irrespective of experimental task, liking score but not environment type predicted gait velocity. Moreover, subjective visual discomfort was predictive of gait velocity. The positive impact of nature described in the literature thus might, at least in part, be due to people's aesthetic preferences for nature images.
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title	Nature benefits revisited: Differences in gait kinematics between nature and urban images disappear when image types are controlled for likeability.
title_short	Nature benefits revisited: Differences in gait kinematics between nature and urban images disappear when image types are controlled for likeability.
title_full	Nature benefits revisited: Differences in gait kinematics between nature and urban images disappear when image types are controlled for likeability.
title_fullStr	Nature benefits revisited: Differences in gait kinematics between nature and urban images disappear when image types are controlled for likeability.
title_full_unstemmed	Nature benefits revisited: Differences in gait kinematics between nature and urban images disappear when image types are controlled for likeability.
title_sort	nature benefits revisited: differences in gait kinematics between nature and urban images disappear when image types are controlled for likeability.
publisher	Public Library of Science (PLoS)
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Nature benefits revisited: Differences in gait kinematics between nature and urban images disappear when image types are controlled for likeability.

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