OBJECTIVE Binaural beat sensations depend upon a central combination of two different temporally encoded tones, separately presented to the two ears. We tested the feasibility to record an auditory steady state evoked response (ASSR) at the binaural beat frequency in order to find a measure for temporal coding of sound in the human EEG. METHODS We stimulated each ear with a distinct tone, bot...

Binaural beats are defined as auditory perceptions, occuring when two tones of slightly different frequencies are presented separately to each ear. When the binaural beat beats with the frequency that corresponds to the state of alpha wave range, than it is believed that the overall brain activity changes accordingly. In this study it is assumed that binaural beat corresponding to alpha wave ra...

Pre-operative anxiety is common and often significant. Ambulatory surgery challenges our pre-operative goal of an anxiety-free patient by requiring people to be 'street ready' within a brief period of time after surgery. Recently, it has been demonstrated that music can be used successfully to relieve patient anxiety before operations, and that audio embedded with tones that create binaural bea...

Science ushered in a new era in our ability to learn, be creative, remember, control our moods, reduce stress, resolve unwanted behavior patterns, and a host of other desirable ends, with the appearance of a remarkable paper by Dr. Gerald Oster, of Mt. Sinai Medical Center, in the October 1973 issue of Scientific American. Oster’s paper, entitled “Auditory Beats in the Brain,” described how pul...

A binaural beat is the perceptual experience that occurs when two tones of slightly different frequencies are presented dichotically, creating the experience of a third tone corresponding to the difference in frequencies. Many temporary cognitive effects have been linked to the presentation of a binaural beat, including increased working memory capacity. In the present study, a version of the f...

The auditory system derives the pitch of complex tones from the tone's harmonics. Research in psychoacoustics predicted that binaural fusion was an important feature of pitch processing. Based on neuromagnetic human data, the first neurophysiological confirmation of binaural fusion in hearing is presented. The centre of activation within the cortical tonotopic map corresponds to the location of...

We are regularly exposed to several concurrent sounds, producing a mixture of binaural cues. The neuronal mechanisms underlying the localization of concurrent sounds are not well understood. The major binaural cues for localizing low-frequency sounds in the horizontal plane are interaural time differences (ITDs). Auditory brain stem neurons encode ITDs by firing maximally in response to "favora...