Super Intelligence: Binaural Beats, Improve Memory and Concentration, Studying Music for Focus
This video, nearly two hours and forty-five minutes long and published by Greenred Productions in August 2020, offers meditation music with binaural beats, described as "brainwave music" for studying, relaxing, sleeping, spa and massage, with self-help hypnosis. The title promises "Super Intelligence," improved memory and concentration. I could not listen to the audio, so I cannot describe the tracks. Here is what binaural beats are and what research does and does not show.
What a binaural beat is
When you hear two slightly different tones, one in each ear, through headphones, many people perceive a faint pulsing sound at the difference between the two. If the left ear gets 200 Hz and the right ear 210 Hz, you may hear a beat of 10 Hz. The effect was described in 1839 by the Prussian physicist Heinrich Wilhelm Dove. In 1973, Gerald Oster, in Scientific American, discussed it as a tool for brain research. The beat is not in the air: the brain builds it from the two signals, and it works only with stereo headphones.
The big claim
The idea behind "brainwave music" is that the brain tends to fall into step with a rhythm. A beat of around 10 Hz, similar to alpha waves, would relax you; a faster one would sharpen focus; a slower one would help sleep. This is called brainwave entrainment. The reasoning is attractive but the evidence for it is weak.
What studies find
A 2019 review of studies by Garcia-Argibay and colleagues, published in the journal Psychological Research, found a small positive effect of binaural beats on attention, anxiety and memory, but also noted that the studies varied a lot in quality and method. A person who expects to feel calmer often does, which complicates the picture. No study shows that these recordings make anyone "super intelligent." Intelligence is not something a sound can switch on.
If you want to try it
- Use stereo headphones at a low, comfortable volume.
- Pair the music with good study habits: short sessions, breaks, a quiet place, sleep.
- Treat it as background that helps you settle in, not as a shortcut.
- If you have epilepsy or a seizure disorder, check with your doctor before using brainwave recordings. Stop if you feel dizzy or uneasy.
The old philosophers prized music as a way to put the soul in order. Pythagoras, tradition says, used melodies to calm the mind before sleep and after waking. Whatever the science finally says about the beats themselves, a long stretch of quiet sound is a fine setting for a good day of reading.
Material audiovisual de referencia: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YmrtJyA0nn0
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