ArticleFrontiers in psychiatry2015
Eliminating the Attentional Blink through Binaural Beats: A Case for Tailored Cognitive Enhancement.
Article in Frontiers in psychiatry, 2015. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT05442086 (Music and Auditory Beat Stimulation and Its Effect on Anxiety), which is not on this map. Cited by 31 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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Music and Auditory Beat Stimulation and Its Effect on Anxiety
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31 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 69 citations in OpenAlex.
- Efficacy of binaural auditory beats in cognition, anxiety, and pain perception: a meta-analysis.Psychological research · 2019Pooled it
- The effects of music & auditory beat stimulation on anxiety: A randomized clinical trial.PloS one · 2022Trial
- Effects of the Alpha, Beta, and Gamma Binaural Beat Brain Stimulation and Short-Term Training on Simultaneously Assessed Visuospatial and Verbal Working Memories, Signal Detection Measures, Response Times, and Intrasubject Response Time Variabilities: A Within-Subject Randomized Placebo-Controlled Clinical Trial.BioMed research international · 2022Trial
- Effect of Inaudible Binaural Beats Stimulation Timing and Task Performance Level on Visuospatial Working Memory.Behavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Article
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- A parametric investigation of binaural beats for brain entrainment and enhancing sustained attention.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Interbrain synchronization in classroom during high-entropy music listening and meditation: a hyperscanning EEG study.Frontiers in neuroscience · 2025Article
- Modulated theta band frequency with binaural beat stimulation correlates with improved cognitive scores in Alzheimer's patients.Frontiers in aging neuroscience · 2025Article
- Comparing the Effectiveness of Cognitive Rehabilitation and Binaural Beats on Craving and Comorbidities of Sexual Hyperactivity: A Pilot, Exploratory Quasi-Experimental Study.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Article
- A new perspective on binaural beats: Investigating the effects of spatially moving sounds on human mental states.PloS one · 2024Article
- Beta and gamma binaural beats enhance auditory sentence comprehension.Psychological research · 2023Article
- Case report: binaural beats music assessment experiment.Frontiers in human neuroscience · 2023Article
- Comparative analysis of acoustic therapies for tinnitus treatment based on auditory event-related potentials.Frontiers in neuroscience · 2023Article
- Binaural acoustic stimulation in patients with Parkinson's disease.Frontiers in neurology · 2023Article
- Stress management using fNIRS and binaural beats stimulation.Biomedical optics express · 2022Article
- The effect of binaural beat stimulation on sustained attention.Psychological research · 2022Article
- Immediate Temporal Information Modulates the Target Identification in the Attentional Blink.Brain sciences · 2022Article
- Effects of binaural and monaural beat stimulation on attention and EEG.Experimental brain research · 2021Article
- Using Heartfulness Meditation and Brainwave Entrainment to Improve Teenage Mental Wellbeing.Frontiers in psychology · 2021Article
- Binaural auditory beats affect long-term memory.Psychological research · 2019Article
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Abstract
Enhancing human cognitive performance is a topic that continues to spark scientific interest. Studies into cognitive-enhancement techniques often fail to take inter-individual differences into account, however, which leads to underestimation of the effectiveness of these techniques. The current study investigated the effect of binaural beats, a cognitive-enhancement technique, on attentional control in an attentional blink (AB) task. As predicted from a neurocognitive approach to cognitive control, high-frequency binaural beats eliminated the AB, but only in individuals with low spontaneous eye-blink rates (indicating low striatal dopamine levels). This suggests that the way in which cognitive-enhancement techniques, such as binaural beats, affect cognitive performance depends on inter-individual differences.
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