Urbanization is positively associated with global perceptual style

More and more people are moving to cities, resulting in than half of the world's population living today urban areas. The impact physical environment on cognition has been a subject study environmental psychology, but findings have inconclusive due its complexity. While some studies indicated negative correlation between urbanization cognitive abilities, others found no significant effects. current investigates relationship urbanicity, multitasking perceptual style. Specifically, aims determine whether individuals highly environments exhibit different abilities compared those low urbanicity style mediates this relationship. Previous research suggests that rural residents show local bias better attentional control, which may affect their abilities. Participants were recruited from two distinct postcode areas UK classified as urbanicity-high urbanicity-low based percentage features present. Our association However, additional analyses revealed other variables related engagement with environment, such time spent outdoors, nature associated This goes line previous showing restorative effects short-term exposure can cognition. Additionally, we examined using global-local visual processing task. In research, dwellers showed global less Overall, our results suggest live is way they process information.