How Natural and Urban Soundscapes affect our Brains

Stobbe and teammates utilized functional MRI sessions and 40 natural and 40 urban soundscapes to probe “the effect of listening to urban (traffic and machinery noise) vs. natural (birds, water and wind) soundscapes on cognitive performance, mood, stress reactivity and the consequences for neural activity during a cognitive task assessed before and after soundscape exposure. . . . The natural soundscapes did not lead to a significant increase in cognitive performance however, the pattern of this data was pointing into that…

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