Children, as Sherlin pointed out, are developmentally hypofrontal—meaning portions of their neocortex are not fully formed (the brain keeps developing until age twenty-five) and this makes them even more flow prone. “More than that,” he continues, “EEG studies of adolescents show their normal brain-wave pattern is much closer to the alpha wave/theta wave borderline that is baseline flow. No direct research has been done, but it looks like they’re hovering on the edge of the state much of the time.
