The Nature Fix

4Runner, my phone and its riveting Mappiness app in my pocket. “Don’t talk to Siri!” He implored me and ...

and to learn about their doubts and biases as I set off on my own exploration about nature and health. Sitting ...

two sides. It felt treacherous, in a good way. Below us we could see a reclining Adam Gazzaley, wh ...

intuition and “convergent creativity,” the RAT gives you three words and asks you to come up with a word ...

neuroscientist, had arrived from the University of Illinois, where he directs the Beckman Institute for Advanced S ...

be hearing a lot more about it. Kramer sipped a lassi and briefly checked his phone. I asked him if he woul ...

“Is the explosion of attractive technologies that give our brains social interactions negatively impacting u ...

“You see,” she explained, looking at me, “he argues about getting away from tech and I argue about bein ...

been fascinated by the concept of attention for a long time, although it’s now enjoying a resurgence in ...

in the world because our brains are pretty good at automatic triage. “Most of the time your brain can filt ...

switching, which is something we do an awful lot of these days, burns up precious oxygenated glucose from ...

food, weather and territorial warfare. Humans have brains that are sensitive to social and emotional stress and w ...

about the source of stress? Compared to our ancestors, there’s no doubt that modern life does challenge u ...

self-critical, the default network is blamed by psychologists. Yet it is also credited with producing empathy, ...

sensory and less analytical, or what neuroscientists call bottom-up instead of top-down. The older parts of my ...

works from her plant-filled university office in Ann Arbor. She and her husband are still revered within the worl ...

faculties. With that restoration, we become more relaxed, and then can perform thinking tasks better. SRT ...

thirty-eight points in a row. He was mindless.” His executive network was not in the house. He performed bett ...

receptive to the stimuli around me. It was so bottom-up, moving through the environment and it was all fitting together. ...

“Yes!” said Jason Watson, a young researcher and associate, another attention scientist who’d become captivate ...