ReviewBiomedicines2023
Electrophysiological and Behavioral Effects of Alpha-Band Sensory Entrainment: Neural Mechanisms and Clinical Applications.
Review in Biomedicines, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT07745335 (Efficacy of a Multisensory Audiovisual Entrainment Neurofeedback for Academic Anxiety Regulation and Divergent Thinking), which is not on this map. Cited by 7 papers.
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Efficacy of a Multisensory Audiovisual Entrainment Neurofeedback for Academic Anxiety Regulation and Divergent Thinking: A Randomized Controlled Trial Study
Who cites it
7 citing papers in PubMed, 13 citations in OpenAlex.
- Prolonged Visual Entrainment Induces Long-Lasting Alpha-Band Modulations.Psychophysiology · 2026Article
- The representation of omitted sounds in the mouse auditory cortex.Nature communications · 2026Article
- Multisensory Rhythmic Entrainment as a Mechanistic Framework for Modulating Prefrontal Network Stability in Focal Epilepsy.Brain sciences · 2025Article
- Cross-modal impact of auditory experience on visual cortical entrainment in children who are hard-of-hearing.Imaging neuroscience (Cambridge, Mass.) · 2025Article
- Spectral tuning and after-effects in neural entrainment.Behavioral and brain functions : BBF · 2024Article
- Sensory stimulation enhances visual working memory capacity.Communications psychology · 2024Article
- Echoes from Sensory Entrainment in Auditory Working Memory for Pitch.Brain sciences · 2024Article
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Abstract
Alpha-band (7-13 Hz) activity has been linked to visuo-attentional performance in healthy participants and to impaired functionality of the visual system in a variety of clinical populations including patients with acquired posterior brain lesion and neurodevelopmental and psychiatric disorders. Crucially, several studies suggested that short uni- and multi-sensory rhythmic stimulation (i.e., visual, auditory and audio-visual) administered in the alpha-band effectively induces transient changes in alpha oscillatory activity and improvements in visuo-attentional performance by synchronizing the intrinsic brain oscillations to the external stimulation (neural entrainment). The present review aims to address the current state of the art on the alpha-band sensory entrainment, outlining its potential functional effects and current limitations. Indeed, the results of the alpha-band entrainment studies are currently mixed, possibly due to the different stimulation modalities, task features and behavioral and physiological measures employed in the various paradigms. Furthermore, it is still unknown whether prolonged alpha-band sensory entrainment might lead to long-lasting effects at a neural and behavioral level. Overall, despite the limitations emerging from the current literature, alpha-band sensory entrainment may represent a promising and valuable tool, inducing functionally relevant changes in oscillatory activity, with potential rehabilitative applications in individuals characterized by impaired alpha activity.
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