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...