Getting to sleep often takes longer than a beat. With 1 in 3 adults struggling to snooze, it’s no wonder many will try ...

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In a TikTok video posted last month, creator Rachel Eppley shows herself lying down on her couch to take a brief nap. Then, she introduces her audience to binaural beats. “In case your mom didn’t ...

Researchers from the Centre for Cognitive Neuroscience have shown that commonly used sound impulses planned to stimulate cognitive processes impair them. Professor Michał Klichowski, director of the ...

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If I told you that an imperceptible stimulus could reduce anxiety, improve memory and attention, and help you sleep better, you’d probably be skeptical. But that’s exactly what binaural beats claim to ...

Cowritten by Charlie Huntington and Tchiki Davis. Binaural beats are what happens when two equally loud sounds, at just slightly different frequencies (or tones), are presented at the same time, one ...

Can how you perceive audio get you high? Last month, the academic journal Drug and Alcohol Review published a survey that proposed listeners have used audio files with binaural beats as "digital drugs ...

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A new study sheds light on the little-known phenomenon of binaural beats, where sounds purportedly evoke psychoactive effects. A binaural beat is an illusionary tone created by the brain when ...