Neurocognitive mechanisms underlying the experience of flow

Consciousness and Cognition

Volumn 13, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 746-761

  Dietrich, Arne ^a  

^a AMERICAN UNIVERSITY OF BEIRUT   (Lebanon)

Author keywords

Attention; Basal ganglia; Consciousness; Creativity; Explicit; Hypofrontality; Implicit; Intuition; Peak experience; Prefrontal cortex; Procedural memory; Review; Self actualization

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BASAL GANGLION; BRAIN FUNCTION; COGNITION; CONSCIOUSNESS; EMPIRICAL RESEARCH; FRONTAL LOBE; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; NEUROSCIENCE; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PSYCHOLOGY; SENSORIMOTOR FUNCTION; TEMPORAL LOBE; THEORETICAL STUDY;

EID: 7444236035     PISSN: 10538100     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.concog.2004.07.002     Document Type: Article

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