Achieving Flow: An Exploratory Investigation of Elite College Athletes and Musicians

Philippe, Roberta Antonini; Singer, Sarah; Jaeger, Joshua; Biasutti, Michele; Sinnett, Scott

doi:10.3389/fpsyg.2022.831508

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“…Runners often report it as associated with pace maintenance 91 . Another example is “flow,” a state of mind involving complete focus and the loss of awareness of time and self‐consciousness which seems to be more prevalent in sports that require pacing 92 and, significantly, in music‐making 93 . Although there is more to be understood about both phenomena, and they clearly apply to more than just EL, the extent to which they are associated with pacing recalls the “moderate pleasure” Pinker predicts for the effective maintenance of rhythmic motor activities.…”

Section: Pace Setting As An Adaptive Root Of Rhythmic Proto‐musicalitymentioning

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Pace setting as an adaptive precursor of rhythmic musicality

Qirko

2024

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

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Human musicality (the capacity to make and appreciate music) is difficult to explain in evolutionary terms, though many theories attempt to do so. This paper focuses on musicality's potential adaptive precursors, particularly as related to rhythm. It suggests that pace setting for walking and running long distances over extended time periods (endurance locomotion, EL) is a good candidate for an adaptive building block of rhythmic musicality. The argument is as follows: (1) over time, our hominin lineage developed a host of adaptations for efficient EL; (2) the ability to set and maintain a regular pace was a crucial adaptation in the service of EL, providing proximate rewards for successful execution; (3) maintaining a pace in EL occasioned hearing, feeling, and attending to regular rhythmic patterns; (4) these rhythmic patterns, as well as proximate rewards for maintaining them, became disassociated from locomotion and entrained in new proto‐musical contexts. Support for the model and possibilities for generating predictions to test it are discussed.

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Section: Pace Setting As An Adaptive Root Of Rhythmic Proto‐musicalitymentioning

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Pace setting as an adaptive precursor of rhythmic musicality

Qirko

2024

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

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“…Many psychologists researched flow state among artists and athletes as these groups often experience flow when creating or performing (Antonini et al, 2022;Habe et al, 2019).…”

Section: Flow State: a Review Of Current Research In Psychology And N...mentioning

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Flow state in psychology and neuroscience: current research and issues

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Liu²

2023

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Since Csikszentmihalyi first conceptualised flow state in 1975, extensive studies filled the scientific literature on the topic. However, inconsistencies in how flow has been conceptualised and operationalised make it difficult to present a unified account. Deviations include whether to operationalise flow as discrete or continuous and whether to measure flow through characteristics and conditions which elicit it or as a distinct concept independent from these antecedents. Different neurocognitive theories have been proposed, such as hypofrontal de-activation, attention-reward synchronisation and sequential cognitive reorganisation. Empirical studies suggest that states of flow involve increased activity in motivational systems related with reward and increased activity in task engagement and attentional networks, alongside reduced activity in self-monitoring networks. However, conceptualisation issues prevent from unambiguously linking empirical findings with different theories.

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“…Considerable research is being done on the preparation, entry into, and exit from the flow state especially in athletes and musicians. [ 47 ] In the relaxed preparatory state, there is a development of higher alpha power of 10–12 Hz in the right posterior parietal area, which is a well-known site for global attention and its regulation. An enhanced fronto-parietal connectivity leads to the generation of more creative ideas.…”

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The Electroencephalographic Brainwave Spectrum, Mindful Meditation, and Awareness

Deshmukh

2023

International Journal of Yoga

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It is hypothesized that being mindfully aware is a spontaneous state of being. It is imbued with joy, peace and happiness. Such a state is periodically revealed during restful attentiveness or presence. It is also associated with spontaneous brain alpha activity of 8–13 Hz. In deep nonrapid eye movement sleep, there is synchronous delta activity at a coherent frequency of 0.1 Hz. Both of these brainwave ground states are spontaneous, calm and effortless. When any physical or mental effort is made, the alpha rhythm is desynchronized, and it is superposed by faster brain waves of beta (13–30 Hz) and gamma frequencies (30–150 Hz). This is associated with a stream of dualistic conscious experiences with contents. During deep sleep, delta activity is superposed by beta and gamma activity with microarousals resulting in dream experiences. During effortless, meditative awareness, the whole family of alpha rhythm is synchronized including (a) Occipital-parietal alpha with visual clarity, formless color, and the absence of visual imagery (b) Frontal eye-field alpha with relatively motionless eyes, and the absence of voluntary actions or plans to move the eyes in some direction, along with nonactive working memory, (c) Somatosensory alpha or Mu rhythm from the somatic motor-sensory cortex with the resultant stillness of the body including head, face, larynx, spine, hands and legs, (d) Mid-temporal auditory alpha with vocal quietness and internal verbal silence ( Maunam ) with a feeling of spontaneous silence and serenity, (e) Cingulate and precuneus alpha resulting in freedom from autobiographical memories and the sense of agency or ego. The insular cortex serves as a gatekeeper, a hierarchical controller to switch between conscious engagement or disengagement from the internal or the external world. It switches between the default mode network and the executive frontoparietal networks, between the sequential and the parallel modes of functioning. Mindful consciousness is local and dualistic, whereas mindful awareness is nonlocal and nondual.

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Achieving Flow: An Exploratory Investigation of Elite College Athletes and Musicians

Cited by 13 publications

References 53 publications

Pace setting as an adaptive precursor of rhythmic musicality

Pace setting as an adaptive precursor of rhythmic musicality

Flow state in psychology and neuroscience: current research and issues

The Electroencephalographic Brainwave Spectrum, Mindful Meditation, and Awareness

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