Highlights•Creativity involves two phases, a generation phase and an evaluation
phase.•Stringent evaluation hinders divergent thinking abilities.•Environmental factors affect …

Background Transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) has been used to improve
exercise performance, though the protocols used, and results found are mixed. Objective We …

What happens in our brains when we compose a melody, write a poem, paint a picture, or
choreograph a dance sequence? How is this different from what occurs in the brain when …

Background There is evidence that transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) can
improve learning performance. Arguably, this effect is related to long term potentiation (LTP) …

Recently, increased attention has been directed to the brain to better understand how motor
skill expertise develops. One promising technique purported to accelerate motor skill …

Flow states have been shown to help people reach peak performance, yet this elusive state
is not easily attained. The review describes the current state of literature on flow by …

Conflicting theories identify creativity either with frontal-lobe mediated (Type-2) executive
control processes or (Type-1) associative processes that are disinhibited when executive …

Transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) has been used aiming to boost exercise
performance and inconsistent findings have been reported. One possible explanation is …

Alpha-band EEG was used to index how creative mental states relate to the creation of
artistic works in skilled musicians. We contrasted differences in frontal upper alpha-band …

Key points The present study showed that anodal and cathodal transcranial direct current
stimulation (tDCS) can respectively increase and decrease the amplitude of visually evoked …