What is a binaural beat?
Binaural beats are also referred to as binaural tones or hemisphere synchronization waves (hemisync for short). Despite the fact that the human mind perceives binaural beats under certain circumstances, this peripheral phenomenon does not technically exist outside of the auditory processing lobes of the brain. Fascinatingly enough, binaural beats are the result of two slightly different, but similar tones (within 40 hertz of one another) that have been separated into the left and right earpieces of a pair of stereo headphones. When the human brain starts to process these slightly different pitches, it will generate an auditory pulsating vibration (or beat) in response to the oscillation of the two different frequencies. In essence, a binaural beat is the result of the human mind filling in missing information, and synchronizing two non synchronized noises into a single tone.
Related Questions
- Ive heard that commercial binaural beat tapes are created with specially-calibrated equipment to generate tones accurate enough to create the correct binaural beats. Is SBaGen this accurate?
- Are there any known adverse affects for re-occurring Binaural beat use?
- Can I use SBaGen to make my own binaural beat tapes and CDs to sell?
