The Correlation between Brain Activation and Flow Experience by Landscape Design.

• Main Authors: Yi-Ju Wang, 王怡茹
• Other Authors: 張俊彥
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2017
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/42966b

碩士 === 國立臺灣大學 === 園藝暨景觀學系 === 105 === Creativity is the ability to produce work that is both novel and appropriate (Sternberg, 1999). Flow is defined as the experience of merging action and awareness. A person in flow does not operate with a dualistic perspective: one is very aware of one’s actions, but not of the awareness itself (Csikszentmihalyi, 2014). This paper focused on two parts of flow, mainly fluency of performance and absorption by activity. Landscape design is one of process bound with creativity. The process includes targeting the problem, preparation, incubation, illumination and verification. What happens in the brain when people perform (landscape) design? Does the creative process make people feel happy? Our research focused on brain activation in landscape design and the mechanisms in which they work. We also tried to explain brain activation with neural network systems by categorizing the brain into five active groups: spatial and memory (bilateral parahippocampal gyrus), conveyance of semantic information (left inferior frontal gyrus and superior temporal gyrus), visual neural network (ventral visual network), attention neural network (ventral attention network) and basal nucleus (right lentiform nucleus). We found a correlation between active brain groups and fluency of performance in the right lentiform nucleus. The research attempts to show a new way of explaining the neural correlations with landscape design. Furthermore, the result can also inference flow in landscape design related to the right lentiform nucleus which the main function is movement regulation and various types of learning related to neurotransmitters (e.g. GABA).