%0 Journal Article %T Effects of Soundscape on the Environmental Restoration in Urban Natural Environments %A Jian Kang %A Joe Kang %A Yuan Zhang %J Archive of "Noise & Health". %D 2017 %R 10.4103/nah.NAH_73_16 %X According to the attention restoration theory, directed attention is a limited physiological resource and is susceptible to fatigue by overuse. Natural environments are a healthy resource, which allows and promotes the restoration of individuals within it from their state of directed attention fatigue. This process is called the environmental restoration on individuals, and it is affected both positively and negatively by environmental factors %K Attention level test %K attention restoration theory %K effect of soundscape %K environmental restoration %K field experiment %U https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5437754/