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Is a Wandering Mind an Unhappy Mind? The Affective Qualities of Creativity, Volition, and Resistance
In recent years, research on mind wandering has increased. Much of this scientific evidence has shown the negative effects of mind wandering, such as...
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Flow in Sports and Exercise: A Historical Overview
Originally, Csikszentmihalyi studied activities such as rock climbing, playing chess, composing music, modern dancing, playing basketball or...
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The Psychophysiology of Flow Experience
In recent years, flow has been increasingly investigated from a physiological perspective and interest in such studies is growing fast. In order to...
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The Effect of Post-activation Performance Enhancement of Coincidence Anticipation Timing in Basketball Players
The aim of this study was to examine the effect of the post-activation performance enhancement (PAPE) method of coincidence anticipation timing in...
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Biopsychosocial Approach to Mental Health
The biopsychosocial model emphasizes the unified and interactive roles of biological, psychological, and social factors in understanding illness...
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The riddle of the extreme ends of the birth experience: Birthing consciousness and its fragility
This paper focuses on the riddle of the extreme ends of the birth experience. On one end, are women who experience relatively successful childbirth...
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Performance Gains in an Open Skill Video-Game Task: The Role of Neural Efficiency and Neural Proficiency
We examined whether practice in an open skill video-game task would lead to changes in performance, attention, motivation, perceived effort, and...
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Interactions between simultaneous aerobic exercise and mental rotation
While the effects of aerobic exercise during a cognitive task on the performance of said cognitive task have been extensively studied, it has not...
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Physical Activity Flow Propensity
Originally defined by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, flow, also known as optimal experience, has often been studied from the viewpoint of personal factors...
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Hyperfocus: the forgotten frontier of attention
‘Hyperfocus’ is a phenomenon that reflects one’s complete absorption in a task, to a point where a person appears to completely ignore or ‘tune out’...
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Historical and Recent Research on ADHD
Current conceptualization and definition of ADHD is a result of long term history of clinical research and epidemiological findings that partially...
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Cognitive and Electrophysiological Correlates of Working Memory Impairments in Neurofibromatosis Type 1
Neurofibromatosis 1 (NF1) is a single gene disorder associated with working Memory (WM) impairments. The aim of this study was to investigate P300...
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The Intergenerational Transmission of Developmental Nicotine Exposure-Induced Neurodevelopmental Disorder-Like Phenotypes is Modulated by the Chrna5 D397N Polymorphism in Adolescent Mice
Maternal tobacco smoking during pregnancy constitutes developmental nicotine exposure (DNE) and is associated with nicotine dependence and...
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Types of creativity
Imagine the impact if we were to understand, and thus could reliably enhance, something – anything – about how creativity works in the brain. The...
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Music and the Evolution of Embodied Cognition
Music is a universal human activity. Its evolution and its value as a cognitive resource are starting to come into focus. This chapter endeavors to...