COGNITIVE RESTORATION BY NATURE: TOWARDS AN INTEGRATION AMONG PROFESSIONAL AND SCHOLAR ENVIRONMENTS
Several studies have shown that stress among workers and students is increasingly common, to the extent of becoming a public health preoccupation. This might be partially explained by increasing demands on the cognitive system. Exposure to natural settings has been shown to help decrease anxiety levels, but also to restore cognitive resources. Hence, this article aims at presenting how cognitive processes can benefit from nature exposure and at highlighting the main studies supporting nature integration among work and scholar environments.