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Do Binaural Beats Really Affect Brainwaves?
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#22Huh. Listening to some samples I'm getting a decent ASMR tingle, which is relaxing and might be what people who listen to these are experiencing.
Nothing to support the claims of "Extremely Powerful Third Eye Opening", though. Good lord.
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#23Earlier quoted context omitted.
also follows from [1] [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge's_law_of_headlines
I think that 'law' is better applied when the headline is trying to catch attention by making an aggressive claim, but wants to not be straight up lying. Here it's genuinely taking a skeptical point of view on binaural beats. For example 'Could this new device give you thirty more years of life?' (no) versus 'Does Elon Musk have intentions of leaving Tesla soon?' (no) (or yes, I don't really know)
yeah i guess that's true
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#24This is not a good study. You should create a two-class classifier to differentiate the two sessions rather than just eyeballing it.
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#25Can the equipment detect differences between brainwaves, outside of binaural beats? Have they run the same tests where they're trying to find the difference between someone resting (i.e. watching television) and someone being very mentally active (i.e. deep programming or whatnot)? That would give an idea of how large the effect should be.
Yes, it can. We have used the same OpenBCI board and software in other experiments, and it does show changes — for example, I ran OpenViBE’s demo SSVEP scenario on the same subject, and the spectrogram showed a pattern of increased amplitude that correlated with the target frequencies.
Even if the effect was too small to see in the spectrogram, we should have seen some affect in the FFT plot at the target frequency; instead, the amplitude of the trials at the target frequency were very slightly below the amplitude of the control segments.
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#265 minutes is too short. It takes about 15 minutes of relaxed meditation for the brain to succumb and sympathize with the frequencies.
Checkout the 90 minute videos on YouTube for the full effect.
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#27TL;DR: No, they do not.
I wouldn't be too eager to draw a definitive conclusion from N=2 .
It's 2 more than any published study I can find investigating the effects of binaural beats.
And I'm pretty certain this is why: http://www.psychfiledrawer.org/TheFiledrawerProblem.php
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#28One method I think I've heard somewhere, is to start the beat frequency at the dominant brain frequency (so 10Hz in this case), and then slowly slide it to the target frequency. Think you could try that too?
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#29Earlier quoted context omitted.
I wouldn't be too eager to draw a definitive conclusion from N=2 .
It's 2 more than any published study I can find investigating the effects of binaural beats. And I'm pretty certain this is why: http://www.psychfiledrawer.org/TheFiledrawerProblem.php
My wife actually did a study of this a long time ago for her Master's degree after having dealt with EEG Biofeedback training under supervision of an MD for years. She had a bunch more participants. In short, Binaural Beats don't work.
edit: I'll see if I can get a link to her paper
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#30Proof once again that if the headline is a question the article invariably answers "no".