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John Kounios

2 papers in the library · publishing 2008-2024

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Creative flow as optimized processing: Evidence from brain oscillations during jazz improvisations by expert and non-expert musicians.

Neuropsychologia April 15, 2024 David Rosen, Yongtaek Oh, Christine Chesebrough et al.

Using a creative production task, jazz improvisation, we tested alternative hypotheses about the flow experience: (A) that it is a state of domain-specific processing optimized by experience and characterized by minimal interference from task-negative default-mode network (DMN) activity versus (B) that it recruits domain-general task-positive DMN activity supervised by the fronto-parietal...

The transliminal brain at rest: baseline EEG, unusual experiences, and access to unconscious mental activity.

Cortex; a journal devoted to the study of the nervous system and behavior 2008 Jessica I Fleck, Deborah L Green, Jennifer L Stevenson et al.

Transliminality reflects individual differences in the threshold at which unconscious processes or external stimuli enter into consciousness. Individuals high in transliminality possess characteristics such as magical ideation, belief in the paranormal, and creative personality traits, and also report the occurrence of manic/mystic experiences. The goal of the present research was to determine...