Children living in urban greener neighborhoods may have better spatial working memory, according to a British Journal of Educational Psychology study. Spatial working memory is responsible for recording information about one's environment and spatial orientation, and it is strongly inter-related with attentional control. Although I grew up in the 1950-60s in a council housing estate in London, it was at that time beautifully maintained, and we were fortunate as children to be surrounded by green space. We walked in the local park and not far away was Wimbledon Common. We were, in that sense at least, rich. Does lack of green space affect cognitive ability? Biologists often say that we humans are hunter-gatherers living in a concrete jungle. But how does this jungle affect our cognitive development, and our awareness of it? A new study of 4758 11-year-olds in England, shows that living in urban areas with limited green space is related to poorer spacial ...
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