These auditory cortices are located in the temporal lobes of the brain and is where sound is perceived (Yantis & Abrams, 2017). Sound wave frequencies are converted into nerve impulses that travel through the auditory nerve to the brain’s auditory cortex (Yantis & Abrams, 2017).ĭuring this course of travel, the auditory nerve fibers cross in the brain’s stem resulting in the sound wave in one ear passing to both left and right hemispheric cortices. He found that the brain could be tricked into resonating different brain wave frequencies by playing the same pure monotone sound wave frequency dichotically, one in each ear (Oster, 1973). In 1839, German physicist and meteorologist Heinrich Wilhelm Dove unveiled a remarkable phenomenon known as binaural beats. However, the focus of this study is on the gamma brain wave frequencies and its effects on cognition and memory with the use of binaural beats during encoding that will increase memory: this effect will be mediated by an increase in gamma brain wave frequency activity. Studies have shown that the induction of specific brain wave frequencies can improve anxiety, alertness and attention, behavioral disorders, creativity, memory, moods, and pain by using sound wave frequencies, such as alpha, beta, delta, gamma, and theta (Chaieb, Wilpert, Reber, & Fell, 2015 Huang & Charyton, 2008 Lane, Kasian, Owens, & Marsh, 1997 Zampi, 2016).
0 kommentar(er)
