Andrew Huberman· PhD
Um, and we find that when people listen to nature sounds, they also show improvements on um on working memory performance and directed attention.
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Um, and we find that when people listen to nature sounds, they also show improvements on um on working memory performance and directed attention.
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And the same procedure happens when we test um sounds of nature versus urban sounds. We test people uh with the backwards digispan task. Then we put headphones on them, play a series of nature sounds or play a series of urban sounds. Then they do the backwards digispan task again. Um, and we find that when people listen to nature sounds, they also show improvements on um on working memory performance and directed attention.
So, there you don't have to worry about getting hit by a car. There's something about the visual aesthetic of nature that we think is producing some of those benefits that somehow our brain maybe processes that fractal stimulation in more efficient or easier ways than kind of what you were talking about the 90° angled built environment that we've uh constructed.
However, I would caution that the effects are not as large as they are for the actual walk. Um, so it's harder uh or I would say I guess the the intervention is not as strong as actually walking in nature, right?