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Benefits of exposure to natural environments on time perception in an Immersive Virtual Reality Environment
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2023
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GI
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The exposure to natural environments can host beneficial effects on our attention, executive function, stress, and mood. Quite often another observation arises when individuals are exposed to nature, their perception of time changes. The present work aims at investigating whether the time spent in nature subjectively differs from the time spent in a urban environment when those are presented in a Virtual Reality Environments. To do so, we exposed 46 participants to have a virtual walk either in a natural or urban environment and to complete three temporal tasks. Our results show that when exposed to a natural environment, participants were more accurate in their timing performances suggesting that the complexity of the urban environment may activate more attentional resources that are diverted from the timing task leading to an overestimation in retrospective tasks and an overestimation in prospective ones.