Nature as a potential modulator of the error-related negativity: A registered report.

According to Kaplan's Theory of Attention Restoration (ART), spending time in a natural environment can restore depleted cognitive resources. If this is true, then nature exposure may modulate the error-related negativity (ERN), a component of the event-related brain potential (ERP) that is related to cognitive control and attentional allocation. ART suggests that cognitive resources are restored because the cognitive control networks of the brain are less engaged in nature, suggesting that the ERN may decrease in nature. In the present study, we completed a registered report, examining whether or not spending time in nature would reduce the size of the ERN compared to outdoor testing. Instead, we found that nature significantly increased the amplitude of the ERN. The implications of these results are discussed within the ART framework.

• Publication year

  2020

• Venue

  International Journal of Psychophysiology

• Publication date

  2020-06-28

• Fields of study

  Medicine, Environmental Science, Psychology

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  DOI 10.1016/j.ijpsycho.2020.06.014PMID 32610054
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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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