Neuroscientists Claim to Have Pinpointed The Brain States Unique to 'Team Flow' - ScienceAlert

An international team of neuroscientists now thinks they have uncovered the neural states unique to team flow, and it appears that these differ both from the flow states we experience as individuals, and from the neural states typically associated with social interaction.

In team flow, the brain still shuts down external stimuli except for the information about the flow state of the teammate.

The research team devised three conditions for the trial; in one, participants played the game while separated from their partner by a black foam-board partition, giving the researchers data on the brain when in an 'individual' flow state.

So what characterized the brains of participants when they were in a state of team flow.

However, what was unique about team flow, was that participants' neural activity appeared to synchronize

When participants were performing the task as a unit, their brains would mutually align in their neural oscillations (beta and gamma activity), creating a "hyper-cognitive state between the team members"