Advancing our understanding of psychological flow: A scoping review of conceptualizations, measurements, and applications.

C Norsworthy, B Jackson, JA Dimmock - Psychological bulletin, 2021 - psycnet.apa.org
Research on psychological flow is well established, although criticisms remain regarding
conceptual and measurement issues associated with the construct. This scoping review …

Go with the flow: A neuroscientific view on being fully engaged

D Van Der Linden, M Tops… - European Journal of …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Flow is a state of full task absorption, accompanied with a strong drive and low levels of self‐
referential thinking. Flow is likely when there is a match between a person's skills and the …

A review on research and evaluation methods for investigating self-transcendence

A Kitson, A Chirico, A Gaggioli, BE Riecke - Frontiers in psychology, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Self-transcendence has been characterized as a decrease in self-saliency (ego
disillusionment) and increased connection, and has been growing in research interest in the …

Neurocognitive mechanisms of the flow state

DJ Harris, SJ Vine, MR Wilson - Progress in brain research, 2017 - Elsevier
While the experience of flow is often described in attentional terms—focused concentration
or task absorption—specific cognitive mechanisms have received limited interest. We …

Cognitive load amplifies Parkinson's tremor through excitatory network influences onto the thalamus

MF Dirkx, H Zach, AJ van Nuland, BR Bloem, I Toni… - Brain, 2020 - academic.oup.com
Parkinson's tremor is related to cerebral activity in both the basal ganglia and a cerebello-
thalamo-cortical circuit. It is a common clinical observation that tremor markedly increases …

Exploring the cognitive mechanisms of expertise in sport: Progress and prospects

A Moran, M Campbell, J Toner - Psychology of sport and exercise, 2019 - Elsevier
Objectives The present paper elucidates some cognitive mechanisms of expertise in sport
that have emerged from recent studies of three topics in psychology: motor imagery; flow …

Changes in pupil dilation and P300 amplitude indicate the possible involvement of the locus coeruleus-norepinephrine (LC-NE) system in psychological flow

H Lu, D van der Linden, AB Bakker - Scientific Reports, 2023 - nature.com
Psychological flow is a state of full task immersion. The present study was conducted to test
the hypothesis that psychological flow is positively related to activity of the phasic locus …

EEG dynamics and neural generators of psychological flow during one tightrope performance

A Leroy, G Cheron - Scientific reports, 2020 - nature.com
Psychological “flow” emerges from a goal requiring action, and a match between skills and
challenge. Using high-density electroencephalographic (EEG) recording, we quantified the …

Detecting students' flow states and their construct through electroencephalogram: Reflective flow experiences, balance of challenge and skill, and sense of control

SF Wu, YL Lu, CJ Lien - Journal of Educational Computing …, 2021 - journals.sagepub.com
Previous studies measured flow states using students' self-reported experiences, resulting in
issues regarding nonobjective and nonreal-time data. Thus, this study used an …

Flow and quiet eye: the role of attentional control in flow experience

DJ Harris, SJ Vine, MR Wilson - Cognitive processing, 2017 - Springer
This report was designed to investigate the role of effective attention control in flow states, by
developing an experimental approach to the study of flow. A challenge-skill balance …