Department of Landscape Planning, Division of Work Science, Business Economics and Environmental Psychology, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, 230 53 Alnarp, Sweden.
Physiol Behav. 2013 Jun 13;118:240-50. doi: 10.1016/j.physbeh.2013.05.023. Epub 2013 May 18.
Experimental research on stress recovery in natural environments is limited, as is study of the effect of sounds of nature. After inducing stress by means of a virtual stress test, we explored physiological recovery in two different virtual natural environments (with and without exposure to sounds of nature) and in one control condition. Cardiovascular data and saliva cortisol were collected. Repeated ANOVA measurements indicated parasympathetic activation in the group subjected to sounds of nature in a virtual natural environment, suggesting enhanced stress recovery may occur in such surroundings. The group that recovered in virtual nature without sound and the control group displayed no particular autonomic activation or deactivation. The results demonstrate a potential mechanistic link between nature, the sounds of nature, and stress recovery, and suggest the potential importance of virtual reality as a tool in this research field.
自然环境下应激恢复的实验研究有限，对自然声音影响的研究也有限。在通过虚拟应激测试诱发应激后，我们在两种不同的虚拟自然环境（有和没有自然声音暴露）以及一种对照条件下探索了生理恢复情况。收集了心血管数据和唾液皮质醇。重复方差分析测量表明，在虚拟自然环境中聆听自然声音的组表现出副交感神经激活，表明在这种环境中可能会发生增强的应激恢复。在没有声音的虚拟自然环境中恢复的组和对照组没有表现出特定的自主激活或失活。结果表明，自然、自然声音和应激恢复之间存在潜在的机制联系，并表明虚拟现实作为该研究领域工具的潜在重要性。
