Year: 2010
Type: article
Abstract: There are various concepts of optimal human functioning such as creativity, flow, peak experience and \nself-actualization. With suggestions that creativity and flow are interrelated, and possibly even interchangeable, \nat first glance the metaphor of flow and the concept of creativity seem to be entangled. \nRich descriptions of creativity and the flow experience exist, especially in psychological literature, \nyet very little is understood of the brain mechanisms that govern such human functioning. This article \ninvestigates flow, creativity, and the brain mechanisms that elicit such unusual human functioning, and \nwhat brain processes ground these psychological constructs. The intention is to distinguish the concept \nof flow from creativity, and expand the heuristic understanding and value of flow within the creative \ndisciplines.
Author: Ariana Van Heerden
Institution: Tshwane University of Technology
Language: Afrikaans
Subfield: Developmental and Educational Psychology
Field: Psychology
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W2152866943