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Neurocognitive mechanisms of the flow state.
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Findings already provide important insights into the crucial role played by higher-order attentional networks, and clear indications of reduced activity in brain regions linked to self-referential processing.Abstract:
While the experience of flow is often described in attentional terms-focused concentration or task absorption-specific cognitive mechanisms have received limited interest. We propose that an attentional explanation provides the best way to advance theoretical models and produce practical applications, as well as providing potential solutions to core issues such as how an objectively difficult task can be subjectively effortless. Recent research has begun to utilize brain-imaging techniques to investigate neurocognitive changes during flow, which enables attentional mechanisms to be understood in greater detail. Some tensions within flow research are discussed; including the dissociation between psychophysiological and experiential measures, and the equivocal neuroimaging findings supporting prominent accounts of hypofrontality. While flow has received only preliminary investigation from a neuroscientific perspective, findings already provide important insights into the crucial role played by higher-order attentional networks, and clear indications of reduced activity in brain regions linked to self-referential processing. The manner in which these processes may benefit sporting performance are discussed.read more
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Flow and Immersion in Video Games: The Aftermath of a Conceptual Challenge.
TL;DR: It is concluded that immersion and flow do not substantially differ in current studies and that more evidence is needed to justify their separation.
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Does intrinsic reward motivate cognitive control? a naturalistic-fMRI study based on the synchronization theory of flow
TL;DR: Psychophysiological interaction analyses show that high levels of intrinsic reward associated with a balance between task difficulty and individual ability are associated with increased functional connectivity between key structures within cognitive control and reward networks.
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Exploring the cognitive mechanisms of expertise in sport: Progress and prospects
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors discuss some cognitive mechanisms of expertise in sport that have emerged from recent studies of three topics in psychology: motor imagery; flow and clutch states; and the "quiet eye" phenomenon.
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Go with the flow: A neuroscientific view on being fully engaged.
TL;DR: It is proposed that dopaminergic and noradrenergic systems mediate the intrinsic motivation and activate mood states that are typical for flow and the interaction between three large‐scale attentional networks is proposed to play a role in the strong task engagement, low self‐referential thinking, feedback and feelings of control in flow.
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A systematic review and meta-analysis of the relationship between flow states and performance
TL;DR: In this article, the strength and direction of the putat-mention is analyzed for optimal flow experience in a sport and a possible relationship with enhanced athletic performances, which has received particular interest within sport.
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Thinking, Fast and Slow
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The unity and diversity of executive functions and their contributions to complex "Frontal Lobe" tasks: a latent variable analysis.
Akira Miyake,Naomi P. Friedman,Michael J. Emerson,Alexander H. Witzki,Amy Howerter,Tor D. Wager +5 more
TL;DR: The results suggest that it is important to recognize both the unity and diversity ofExecutive functions and that latent variable analysis is a useful approach to studying the organization and roles of executive functions.
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Control of goal-directed and stimulus-driven attention in the brain
TL;DR: Evidence for partially segregated networks of brain areas that carry out different attentional functions is reviewed, finding that one system is involved in preparing and applying goal-directed selection for stimuli and responses, and the other is specialized for the detection of behaviourally relevant stimuli.
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Marcus E. Raichle,Ann Mary MacLeod,Abraham Z. Snyder,William J. Powers,Debra A. Gusnard,Gordon L. Shulman +5 more
TL;DR: A baseline state of the normal adult human brain in terms of the brain oxygen extraction fraction or OEF is identified, suggesting the existence of an organized, baseline default mode of brain function that is suspended during specific goal-directed behaviors.