{"id":4317,"date":"2014-09-24T18:25:24","date_gmt":"2014-09-24T17:25:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mitue.de\/?p=4317"},"modified":"2014-09-24T18:25:24","modified_gmt":"2014-09-24T17:25:24","slug":"why-walking-helps-us-think","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mitue.de\/?p=4317","title":{"rendered":"Why Walking Helps Us Think"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/mitue\/15071680371\" title=\"Spreewald114 by Michael T., on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/farm6.staticflickr.com\/5586\/15071680371_57833c5de3.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" alt=\"Spreewald114\"><\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Where we walk matters as well. In a study led by Marc Berman of the University of South Carolina, students who ambled through an arboretum improved their performance on a memory test more than students who walked along city streets. A small but growing collection of studies suggests that spending time in green spaces\u2014gardens, parks, forests\u2014can rejuvenate the mental resources that man-made environments deplete. Psychologists have learned that attention is a limited resource that continually drains throughout the day. A crowded intersection\u2014rife with pedestrians, cars, and billboards\u2014bats our attention around. In contrast, walking past a pond in a park allows our mind to drift casually from one sensory experience to another, from wrinkling water to rustling reeds.<br \/>\n(more <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/tech\/elements\/walking-helps-us-think\">here<\/a>)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Where we walk matters as well. In a study led by Marc Berman of the University of South Carolina, students who ambled through an arboretum improved their performance on a memory test more than students who walked along city streets. A small but growing collection of studies suggests that spending time in green spaces\u2014gardens, parks, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4317","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-promenadologie"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mitue.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4317","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mitue.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mitue.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mitue.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mitue.de\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4317"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mitue.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4317\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4318,"href":"https:\/\/mitue.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4317\/revisions\/4318"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mitue.de\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4317"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mitue.de\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4317"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mitue.de\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4317"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}