Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A man with tan skin and black hair wearing an EEG cap with colorful electrodes on it as he plays a guitar. A researcher stands in ...

Figure 1: Drexel University postdoctoral researcher Yongtaek Oh playing the guitar while his electroencephalograms (EEGs) are recorded in Drexel University’s Creativity Research Laboratory. The study ...

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi (1934-2021), a professor of psychology at the University of Chicago and originator of the concept of flow. Source: Wikimedia Commons/ Public Domain. Author: Ehirsh. In his ...

There is a state of mind athletes talk about when they are totally absorbed in the moment and the actions of their sport. They call it being in "the zone", a "flow state" or simply "flow". In his ...

The best character action games let me enter the combat flow state. I love zipping to my target, pummeling them with attacks, nimbly dodging, launching them into the air, and juggling their body until ...

Think back to a time when you were completely immersed in something you loved doing. Maybe you were writing, painting, working, or playing an instrument. The world around you faded, and time seemed to ...

PAUL A. HSIEH, is a research hydrologist with the U.S. Geological Survey in Menlo Park, California. Dr. Hsieh is also an adjunct professor in the Department of Geological and Environmental Sciences at ...