Neuroimaging research on jazz improvisation suggests creative flow may have less to do with inspiration and more to do with learned expertise meeting the willingness to release control

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Among musicians who improvise, there is a description of a certain quality of playing that comes up often enough to constitute its own category: moments when the decisions stop feeling like decisions, when the playing seems to happen without the ordinary overhead of consideration and choice. Jazz musicians talk about it, as do classical performers [...] The post Neuroimaging research on jazz improvisation suggests creative flow may have less to do with inspiration and more to do with learned expertise meeting the willingness to release control appeared first on Space Daily .