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Attention Restoration Theory
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- Mental fatigue is the result of declining directed attention*
*Attention that requires mental effort
How do you feel when you sit in a single classroom for hours?
Lowered ability to concentrate
Irratibility increases
Proness to make mistakes
- To recover attention you need activites that are fascinating, compelling and effortless
"It is only in the modern world that the split between the important and the interesting has become extreme" - Kaplan, S. (1995)
Where do you go to restore your mind?
- Take you away physically but most importantly, conceptually
- Restorative environments must be rich and coherent enough to engage the mind
"It must provide enough to see, experience, and think about so that it takes up a substantial portion of the available room in one's head." Kaplan, S. (1995)
- Should be compatible with one's purposes and inclinations
What are the benefits of a restorative experience?
- Clearing of the mind
- Recovery of fatiqued directed attention
- Opportunity to think about one's personal problems
- Opportunity to reflect on life's larger questions: priorties, goals
So how is ART being used practically?
Landscape and Human Health Laboratory
Attention Restoration Theory
Rachel and Stephen Kaplan (1989)
- People can concentrate better after spending time in nature or looking at nature scenes
Restorative environments help one recover from attention fatigue
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