Andrew Huberman· PhD
Binaural beats have been shown to modestly improve cognition, attention, working memory and even creativity. But the real boost from binaural beats appears to be for anxiety reduction and pain reduction.
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The evidence is convergent. Multiple independent sources reach the same conclusion, the underlying mechanism is well-characterized, and even the field's most cautious voices treat it as worth doing.
Binaural beats have been shown to modestly improve cognition, attention, working memory and even creativity. But the real boost from binaural beats appears to be for anxiety reduction and pain reduction.
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there are several studies that show not enormous okay I want to be clear small to moderate improvements in working memory performance but in some cases significant Improvement
found generally something similar in this case they were using 15 Herz binaural beats and here I'm I'm paraphrasing produced network activity characteristic of high information transfer with consistent connection strengths what they're really talking about is changes in neural activity patterns within the brain that led to or at least were correlated with with improvements on visual spatial working memory
found in some cases a small to moderate but significant Improvement in cognitive performance on working memory tasks
So, we'll review what those are. Now the frequency of binaural beats that appears to bring about improved cognitive functioning at the level of memory improved reaction times and improved verbal recall seems to be 40 hertz.