Study Finds Listening To Birds Can Reduce Stress And Anxiety In Humans

A new study has found that listening to bird songs can help get over stress and anxiety in humans.

Have you ever wondered why it is so relaxing to listen to birds chirping in the morning? Well, a new study has found that listening to bird songs can help beat stress and anxiety in humans.

A team of researchers from Germany evaluated the effects of urban traffic noise versus natural bird sounds on participants' cognitive and emotional function.

According to a study published in the journal Nature Portfolio for Scientific Reports, another goal was to investigate the effect of lowering vs.

The highest diversity in the sound scene by varying the amount of different typical traffic noises or songs from different species of birds within the respective sound range.

The researchers conducted an online experiment in which 295 participants were randomly assigned to one of four 6-minute treatments: low traffic noise, high traffic noise, low bird sounds,

And the sounds of birds are very diverse. Participants also completed a task spanning numbers and binary to back before and after exposure, as well as questionnaires for sadness, anxiety, and paranoia.

According to Newsweek, as the world urbanizes rapidly, the environment in which humans live is constantly changing as well. This is expected by 2050

, about 70% of the world's population will live in cities, with certain regions, such as Europe, already exceeding that number.

Learning how the urban environment affects our well-being is an essential task given that urbanization is associated with poorer mental health outcomes. but,

The importance of environmental factors on human well-being and perception has often been underestimated in traditional psychological studies.

"My colleagues and I are generally fascinated by the impact of the environment on humans," Emil Staub, an author of the study with Lise Meitner Group, told Newsweek.

And through our research we also want to raise awareness about the interconnectedness between humans and nature.”

She added that in the field of environmental neuroscience, we aim to study the therapeutic effects of natural environments.

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