A view not to be missed: Salient scene content interferes with cognitive restoration.

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 p...

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Main Authors: Alexander P N Van der Jagt, Tony Craig, Mark J Brewer, David G Pearson
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2017-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC5516974?pdf=render