Natural scene on monitor : improve executive functioning?

• Main Author: Yap, Hui Yi.
• Other Authors: Michael Donald Patterson
• Format: Final Year Project
• Language: English
• Published: 2013
• Subjects: DRNTU::Social sciences::Psychology::Consciousness and cognition; DRNTU::Social sciences::Psychology::Experimental psychology
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10356/52533
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

Previous studies had shown nature’s restorative effect on sustained and directed attention with participants being physically in the nature environment or simply via viewing photos. It was also found that this effect may extend to virtual setting. Given the relationship between directed attenti...