Mattie Tops

The Neuroscience of the Flow State: Involvement of the Locus Coeruleus Norepinephrine System.

Frontiers in Psychology 2021 Dimitri Van der Linden, Mattie Tops, Arnold B Bakker

Flow is a state of full task engagement that is accompanied with low-levels of self-referential thinking. Flow is considered highly relevant for human performance and well-being and has, therefore, been studied extensively. Yet, the neurocognitive processes of flow remain largely unclear. In the present mini-review we focus on how the brain's locus coeruleus-norepinephrine (LC-NE) system may be...