{"id":184354,"date":"2024-03-05T05:22:23","date_gmt":"2024-03-05T11:22:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/03\/your-brain-in-the-zone-a-new-neuroimaging-study-reveals-how-the-brain-achieves-a-creative-flow-state"},"modified":"2024-03-05T05:22:23","modified_gmt":"2024-03-05T11:22:23","slug":"your-brain-in-the-zone-a-new-neuroimaging-study-reveals-how-the-brain-achieves-a-creative-flow-state","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/03\/your-brain-in-the-zone-a-new-neuroimaging-study-reveals-how-the-brain-achieves-a-creative-flow-state","title":{"rendered":"Your brain in the zone: A new neuroimaging study reveals how the brain achieves a creative flow state"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/your-brain-in-the-zone-a-new-neuroimaging-study-reveals-how-the-brain-achieves-a-creative-flow-state2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The University of Chicago Medicine is among the first 30 institutions in the country to offer tumor-infiltrating lymphocyte (TIL) therapy for advanced melanoma, immediately activating as an authorized treatment center after federal regulators approved the treatment on February 16, 2024.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Effortless, enjoyable productivity is a state of consciousness prized and sought after by people in business, the arts, research, education and anyone else who wants to produce a stream of creative ideas and products. That\u2019s the flow, or the sense of being \u201cin the zone.\u201d A new neuroimaging study from Drexel University\u2019s Creativity Research Lab is the first to reveal how the brain gets to the creative flow state.<\/p>\n<p>The study is <a href=\"https:\/\/linkinghub.elsevier.com\/retrieve\/pii\/S0028393224000393\">published<\/a> in the journal Neuropsychologia.<\/p>\n<p>The study isolated flow-related brain activity during a creative task: jazz improvisation. The findings reveal that the creative flow state involves two key factors: extensive experience, which leads to a network of brain areas specialized for generating the desired type of ideas, plus the release of control\u2014 letting go\u2014to allow this network to work with little or no conscious supervision.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The University of Chicago Medicine is among the first 30 institutions in the country to offer tumor-infiltrating lymphocyte (TIL) therapy for advanced melanoma, immediately activating as an authorized treatment center after federal regulators approved the treatment on February 16, 2024. Effortless, enjoyable productivity is a state of consciousness prized and sought after by people in [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":534,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,43,32,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-184354","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-business","category-education","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184354","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/534"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=184354"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184354\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=184354"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=184354"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=184354"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}