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ArticleFrontiers in psychology2019

Positive Effects of Nature on Cognitive Performance Across Multiple Experiments: Test Order but Not Affect Modulates the Cognitive Effects.

Cecilia U D Stenfors, Stephen C Van Hedger, Kathryn E Schertz, Francisco A C Meyer, Karen E L Smith, Greg J Norman, Stefan C Bourrier, James T Enns, Omid Kardan, John Jonides and 1 more

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Article in Frontiers in psychology, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. An erratum has been issued. Cited by 26 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

26 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

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  14. [Nature experience and mental health in children-theoretical approaches and selected empirical findings].Bundesgesundheitsblatt, Gesundheitsforschung, Gesundheitsschutz · 2023
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  20. Associations between Nature Exposure and Health: A Review of the Evidence.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2021
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

11 authors.

Cecilia U D StenforsDepartment of Psychology, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, United States.
Stephen C Van HedgerDepartment of Psychology, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, United States.
Kathryn E SchertzDepartment of Psychology, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, United States.
Francisco A C MeyerDepartment of Psychology, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, United States.
Karen E L SmithDepartment of Psychology, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, United States.
Greg J NormanDepartment of Psychology, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, United States.
Stefan C BourrierDepartment of Psychology, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada.
James T EnnsDepartment of Psychology, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada.
Omid KardanDepartment of Psychology, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, United States.
John JonidesDepartment of Psychology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, United States.
Marc G BermanDepartment of Psychology, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, United States.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Interactions with natural environments and nature-related stimuli have been found to be beneficial to cognitive performance, in particular on executive cognitive tasks with high demands on directed attention processes. However, results vary across different studies. The aim of the present paper was to evaluate the effects of nature vs. urban environments on cognitive performance across all of our published and new/unpublished studies testing the effects of different interactions with nature vs. urban/built control environments, on an executive-functioning test with high demands on directed attention-the backwards digit span (BDS) task. Specific aims in this study were to: (1) evaluate the effect of nature vs. urban environment interactions on BDS across different exposure types (e.g., real-world vs. artificial environments/stimuli); (2) disentangle the effects of testing order (i.e., effects caused by the order in which experimental conditions are administered) from the effects of the environment interactions, and (3) test the (mediating) role of affective changes on BDS performance. To this end, data from 13 experiments are presented, and pooled data-analyses are performed. Results from the pooled data-analyses (

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affectcognitive performancecognitive restorationdirected attentionenvironmentnatureorder effectspractice effects

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PMID31333526
PMCPMC6616085

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