Kaplan’s Attention Restoration Theory (1995) suggests that exposure to nature, even in the form of pictures, helps to restore depleted attention. Previous studies have found that adults’ executive functions (attention, inhibitory control, and working memory) often improve after viewing nature scenes, but not after viewing urban scenes. The current study assessed whether pictures of nature also ...

A governance perspective that connects actors at multiple levels in forest restoration is largely missing and much needed to expedite the translation of national targets into long-lasting outcomes. An explicit focus on interactions across levels, how these influence ecological processes different spatial can overcome general tendency either from top-down or bottom-up help improve quality restor...

Local and non-local attention-based methods have been well studied in various image restoration tasks while leading to promising performance. However, most of the existing solely focus on one type attention mechanism (local or non-local). Furthermore, by exploiting self-similarity natural images, pixel-wise operations tend give rise deviations process characterizing long-range dependence due de...

Physical settings can play a role in coping with stress; in particular experimental research has found strong evidence between exposure to natural environments and recovery from physiological stress and mental fatigue, giving support to both Stress Recovery Theory and Attention Restoration Theory. In fact, exposure to natural environments protects people against the impact of environmental stre...

The primary aim of this study was to examine the effects of running intensity level and physical activity level on the recovery of attentional fatigue while controlling for duration, environment, and activity type in a sample of recreational runners. Attention Restoration Theory served as the theoretical frame for the study. Relationships among these and related variables were evaluated at the ...