Nature soundscapes and cognitive performance in an office environment

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dc.contributor.authorPittman, Maxwell
dc.contributor.supervisorGifford, Robert
dc.date.accessioned2019-04-23T18:14:36Z
dc.date.copyright2019en_US
dc.date.issued2019-04-23
dc.degree.departmentDepartment of Psychology
dc.degree.levelMaster of Science M.Sc.en_US
dc.description.abstractResearch suggests that interacting with nature has positive psychological, physiological, and cognitive benefits. Views to nature, interacting with nature, and other visual nature stimuli have been widely studied. However, nature soundscapes have received less attention; and the limited research that has been published has mixed findings. The present study assessed whether nature soundscapes influenced performance on cognitive and affective assessments. Participants completed the Flanker task, the Stroop task, a Visual Search task, and the Positive and Negative Affect Schedule, while exposed to either nature sounds alone, nature sounds with outdoor views, or neither. No statistically significant differences in performance were found for any of the three conditions, on either the cognitive and affective assessments. These findings indicate that the relation between nature sounds and cognition is more complex than originally presumed, and potential future directions are discussed.en_US
dc.description.embargo2020-04-11
dc.description.scholarlevelGraduateen_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1828/10745
dc.languageEnglisheng
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.rightsAvailable to the World Wide Weben_US
dc.subjectbiophiliaen_US
dc.subjectbiophilic hypothesisen_US
dc.subjectattention restorationen_US
dc.subjectattention restoration theoryen_US
dc.subjectnature soundsen_US
dc.subjectnature soundscapesen_US
dc.titleNature soundscapes and cognitive performance in an office environmenten_US
dc.typeThesisen_US

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