ArticleFrontiers for young minds2021
BOOSTING BRAIN WAVES IMPROVES MEMORY.
Article in Frontiers for young minds, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers.
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6 citing papers in PubMed.
- Audio-Visual Entrainment Neuromodulation: A Review of Technical and Functional Aspects.Brain sciences · 2025Review
- Context familiarity is a third kind of episodic memory distinct from item familiarity and recollection.iScience · 2024Article
- Neural oscillations and memory: unraveling the mechanisms of anesthesia-induced amnesia.Frontiers in neuroscience · 2024Review
- An ERP measure of non-conscious memory reveals dissociable implicit processes in human recognition using an open-source automated analytic pipeline.Psychophysiology · 2023Article
- Effects of Pulsed-Wave Chromotherapy and Guided Relaxation on the Theta-Alpha Oscillation During Arrest Reaction.Frontiers in psychology · 2022Article
- Individual differences in cognitive performance under pain linked to region-specific alpha power modulations.Neurobiology of pain (Cambridge, Mass.)Article
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Abstract
Have you ever wanted to improve your memory? Or have you struggled to remember what you studied? Memory uses special patterns of activity in the brain. This experiment tested a new way to create brain wave patterns that help with memory. We wanted to see if we could improve memory by using lights and sounds that teach the brain waves to be in sync. People wore special goggles that made flashes of light and headphones that made beeping noises. This trained the brain through a process called entrainment. The entrainment put the brain in sync at a specific brain wave pattern called theta. People whose brains were trained to be in theta had better memory compared to people whose brains did not get trained. We learned that entrainment is a cool new way to make memory better.
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