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Notes from the FlowState team on EEG, signal processing, and closed-loop neurofeedback.
Why FlowState Is Built This Way
The research behind FlowState points to three design principles: closed-loop timing, personal baselines, and measurement that validates whether an intervention actually worked.
How FlowState Works
FlowState measures your brain rhythms in real time, detects focus drops against your own baseline, and uses personalized audio pulses that stop when your brain recovers.
What Beta Waves Are Actually Doing
Beta is real, but the version of it floating around consumer wellness conflates focus with anxious arousal. Here's what motor neuroscience, working memory, and a sham-controlled audio study actually show.
What Theta Brainwaves Actually Do
Theta is a real lever for memory and working memory, but the gap between the published neuroscience and consumer focus products is wider than either side wants to admit.
What Flow State Actually Is
Most of what you read about flow is half-true. Here is what the science can and can't say about it — and why we still named the company after it.