An analysis of the underlying similarities between the Eastern meditation tradition and attention restoration theory (ART) provides a basis for an expanded framework for studying directed attention. The focus of the analysis is the active role the individual can play in the preservation and recovery of the directed attention capacity. Two complementary strategies are presented that can help ind...

WURJ: Health and Natural Sciences Vol. 6 :1 http://dx.doi.org/10.5206/wurjhns.2015-16.4 1 Abstract Background Recent research has suggested that physical activity in natural areas may provide benefits that exceed those in other settings. Additional benefits include increased self-esteem and enjoyment of the activity, and decreased negative mood states and blood pressure. Therefore, encouraging ...

Abstract Self-similarity refers to the image prior widely used in restoration algorithms that small but similar patterns tend occur at different locations and scales. However, recent advanced deep convolutional neural network-based methods for do not take full advantage of self-similarities by relying on self-attention modules only process information same scale. To solve this problem, we prese...

Directed attention plays an important role in human information processing; its fatigue, in turn, has far­ reaching consequences. Attention Restoration Theory provides an analysis of the kinds of experiences that lead to recovery from such fatigue. Natural environments turn out to be particularly rich in the character­ istics necessary for restorative experiences. An integrative framework is pr...

Directed attention plays an important role in human information processing; its fatigue, in turn, has farreaching consequences. Attention Restoration Theory provides an analysis of the kinds of experiences that lead to recovery from such fatigue. Natural environments turn out to be particularly rich in the characteristics necessary for restorative experiences. An integrative framework is propos...

The role of scenic landscapes in restoring human mental fatigue has begun to receive attention from landscape researchers. However, little is known about the positive role of visually-preferred landscapes on restorative environments and in improving the mental fatigue of people. This study attempted to determine the relationship between the predictors of preference and restorative components of...

ABSTRACT Complex stimuli in urban environments often lead to cognitive fatigue residents. As a result, there is growing demand from residents for restorative environments. Previous research has shown that the pure natural environment wild can help people achieve restoration. However, little attention been paid restoration through exposure green infrastructure. Based on Attention Restoration The...

Attention Restoration Theory (ART) states that built scenes place greater load on attentional resources than natural scenes. This is explained in terms of "hard" and "soft" fascination of built and natural scenes. Given a lack of direct empirical evidence for this assumption we propose that perceptual saliency of scene content can function as an empirically derived indicator of fascination. Sal...