Neuroscientist John Kounios tells The Conversation Weekly podcast about what his new research with jazz musicians revealed about the brain mechanisms of creative flow.
If you’ve ever experienced a state of creative flow, perhaps when writing, playing music, or even gardening, you’ll know that it feels like everything just clicks into place. But what is actually happening inside the brain?
Behavioural pyschologists have been fascinated by the idea of flow since Mihály Csíkszentmihályi began investigating it in the 1970s. But Kounios and his colleagues – a team of present and former graduate students led by David Rosen – wanted to better understand the brain mechanisms underlying it. They recruited 32 jazz musicians from Philadelphia to help find out.
Unsurprisingly, the more experienced musicians reported experiencing flow more often and their performances were rated more highly by the experts than the novices. And the brain scans began to reveal just how closely flow was linked to expertise.
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