Birds are a way to connect with nature, which is associated with better body and brain health, research shows.
The birdsongs you are hearing may already be helping your mood.found that listening to short — just six-minute — audio clips of birdsong could reduce feelings of anxiety, depression and paranoia in healthy participants.
“Listening to birdsong through headphones was able to hit the same pathways that might be beneficial toward mental well-being,” said Hammoud, who was not involved in the second study. “That’s a very, very nice finding,” Researchers asked 295 online participants to self-assess their emotional states and to take a cognitive memory test. Then they randomly assigned the participants to listen to birdsongs or traffic noise, of more or less diversity. The researchers then had the subjects remeasure their emotional and cognitive states.Participants who listened to more diverse birdsongs reported a decrease in depressive symptoms in addition to significant decreases in feelings of anxiety and paranoia.
The research shows the “healing aspects of nature, or also the not-so-positive effects of urban surroundings,” said Stobbe, an author of the second study. on the health effects of nature sounds found that they could even confer cognitive benefits, though the second study did not replicate that finding.
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