More attentional focusing through binaural beats: evidence from the global–local task
Colzato LS, Barone H, Sellaro R, Hommel B. · Psychological research · 2017
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“high-frequency gamma binaural beats did have a significant impact on the global precedence effect: the precedence effect became smaller, suggesting that visual attention became more focused than in the control condition.”
“this is the first study to demonstrate that binaural beats induce an individual processing style that modulates visual attention.”
“As we have argued, beats in the gamma range achieve this effect by increasing attentional focusing rather than by suppressing currently irrelevant tasks and task-related information.”
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https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/26612201/ · https://doi.org/10.1007/s00426-015-0727-0 · https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00426-015-0727-0
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“high-frequency gamma binaural beats did have a significant impact on the global precedence effect: the precedence effect became smaller, suggesting that visual attention became more focused than in the control condition.” · “this is the first study to demonstrate that binaural beats induce an individual processing style that modulates visual attention.” · “As we have argued, beats in the gamma range achieve this effect by increasing attentional focusing rather than by suppressing currently irrelevant tasks and task-related information.”
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https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/26612201/ · https://doi.org/10.1007/s00426-015-0727-0 · https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00426-015-0727-0
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© The Author(s) 2015 Open Access This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License ( http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ ), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made.
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