Links for tag "neuroscience"
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20 Minute Contact with Nature Reduces Stress Hormone Cortisol
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Taking at least twenty minutes out of your day to stroll or sit in a place that makes you feel in contact with nature will significantly lower your stress hormone levels. That’s the finding of a study that has established for the first time the most effective dose of an urban nature experience.
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A Brain Motivated to Play: Insights into the Neurobiology of Playfulness
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There is ample evidence that engaging in play as a juvenile leads to an adult that is better able to navigate an ever-changing social, emotional, and cognitive landscape (Vanderschuren & Trezza, 2014)
- Stress-related hormone cortisol lowers significantly after just 45 minutes of art creation [permalink]
- Science Has Just Confirmed That If You're Not Outside Your Comfort Zone, You're Not Learning [permalink]
- Learning New Vocabulary During Deep Sleep [permalink]
- What Cirque du Soleil can tell us about the neuroscience of awe [permalink]
- Need to remember something? Draw it [permalink]
- Defeating Fear Depends on Amygdala Suppression [permalink]
- The Effect of Diaphragmatic Breathing on Attention, Negative Affect and Stress in Healthy Adults [permalink]
- Neuroscience of singing [permalink]