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Simply looking at nature – or even just digital pictures of it – can relieve pain, according to new research which scanned ...

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Summary: Viewing natural scenes can significantly reduce how people perceive pain, a new neuroimaging study has found.

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A team of neuroscientists from the University of Vienna has published brain scan evidence demonstrating that exposure to nature can reduce pain. The research is available in Nature Communications.

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Watching nature reduces pain by changing brain activity. Scientists used fMRI scans to show that natural scenes weaken pain ...

Our brains use basic "building blocks" of information to keep track of how people interact, enabling us to navigate complex ...

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The animate-inanimate category distinction is one of the general organizing principles in the primate high-level visual cortex. Much less is known about the visual cortical representations of animacy ...