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When two tones of slightly different frequencies are played in separate ears simultaneously (usually through headphones), the human brain perceives the creation of a new, third tone, whose frequency ...

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 ...

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 ...

In the never-ending quest to either get high or feel better, people are using a sound technology, called “binaural beats,” to mellow their minds. This sophisticated recording technique uses tiny ...

Monica Barratt receives funding from the National Centre for Clinical Research on Emerging Drugs. Alexia Maddox, Jenny L. Davis, and Naomi Smith do not work for, consult, own shares in or receive ...

Many people with migraine experience sound sensitivity during or before an episode. Most people, in these cases, find that avoiding noise can help ease migraine pain. Still, this may not occur for ...