You might have seen online or heard about "binaural beats", which have been described as "digital drugs". The perceptual phenomenon of binaural beats was discovered by Heinrich Wilhelm Dove in 1841 ...

If you were looking for a mind-altering experience, your first thought probably wouldn't be to put on a pair of headphones and crank up Spotify. But a new study shows that people are increasingly ...

Binaural beat therapy is an emerging form of sound wave therapy. It makes use of the fact that the right and left ear each receive a slightly different frequency tone, yet the brain perceives these as ...

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 ...

Something weird happens to your brain when you play a steady tone at two slightly different frequencies. If one headphone speaker plays a low, constant drone at, for example, 400 Hertz and the other ...

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 ...