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Research Hit: A Walk In Nature Boosts/Restores Attention and Cognitive Control

Andy Hab
4 min readJun 14, 2024

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New research shows that walking in nature is more effective than walking in urban environments at restoring attention and cognitive control

Nature is good for our health and brain: you have reported on this before, right?

Indeed, I have reported multiple times on how nature has been shown to be beneficial to all aspects of health and brain functioning:

This is another piece of supporting evidence by Amy McDonnell of the University of Utah. But also interestingly this is an intervention study.

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Andy Hab
Andy Hab

Written by Andy Hab

Sharing fascinating, fun, and important knowledge on the brain and human behaviour - most days. And masters track athlete - still going strong!

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