MEMBER BLOG TAG: innisfree
| Sunday, January 11, 2009 12:50PM | | | | The effects of landscape | Tags: Chet Raymo, city life, Innisfree, Jonah Lehrer, Thoreau, Walden, writing process, Yeats
| | | I read an interesting article recently in the Boston Globe by Jonah Lehrer, in which the author explores recent studies into how living in cities can hurt your brain. I forwarded it to my Best Beloved, with "I told you so" in the subject line.
In Lehrer's article, he acknowledges that cities have historically been viewed as "the engine of intellectual life," but goes on to say:
"Now scientists have begun to examine how the city affects the brain, and the results are chastening. Just being in an urban environment, they have found, impairs our basic mental processes. After spending a few minutes on a crowded city street, the brain is less able to hold things in memory, and suffers... | | | | | |
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