If you were looking for a mind-altering experience, your first thought probably wouldn't be to put on a pair of headphones and crank up Spotify. But a new study shows that people are increasingly ...

Can how you perceive audio get you high? Last month, the academic journal Drug and Alcohol Review published a survey that proposed listeners have used audio files with binaural beats as "digital drugs ...

Monica Barratt receives funding from the National Centre for Clinical Research on Emerging Drugs. Alexia Maddox, Jenny L. Davis, and Naomi Smith do not work for, consult, own shares in or receive ...

When you hear two slightly mismatched sounds, an odd thing can happen. You start to hear a third sound, a rhythmic beat that does not exist. Don’t believe me? Try it for yourself, here. This strange ...

A binaural beat is an illusion created by your brain when you listen to two tones with slightly different frequencies at the same time, one in each ear. Some early research suggests that listening to ...

Listening to audio with binaural beats may benefit your mental health and promote creativity and focus. When you hear two tones — one in each ear — that are slightly different in frequency, your brain ...