A binaural beat, which occurs when the two mentioned tones are simultaneously presented to different ears, a virtual fluctuation of a single tone is generated in the brain by the ascending auditory pathway. The fluctuation single tone is perceived as amplitude modulation with the frequency equaling the difference of the frequencies of the two interfering tones. Moreover, the N3 latency of the experimental group was shorter.īeat is a phenomenon that occurs by interference of two almost equivalent sinusoidal tones but with slightly different frequencies and presents as fluctuation of a single tone. The results showed that the N3 duration of the experimental group was longer than that of the control group, and the N2 duration of the experimental group was shorter than that of the control group. However, the participants were blinded to their stimulus group. For the control group, a silent sham stimulus was used. The stimulus was initiated when the first epoch of the N2 sleep stage was detected and stopped when the first epoch of the N3 sleep stage detected. Participants in both groups underwent the same procedures, but only the experimental group was exposed to the 3-Hz binaural beat on the experimental night. The experimental period was three consecutive nights consisting of an adaptation night, a baseline night, and an experimental night. Twenty-four participants were allocated to experimental and control groups. This study aimed to investigate the effect of a 3-Hz binaural beat on sleep stages, which is considered a behavioral state. The binaural beat can entrain neural activities to synchronize with the beat frequency and induce behavioral states related to the neural activities. In this phenomenon, the so-called binaural beat has a frequency equaling the difference of the frequencies of the two pure tones. The dichotic presentation of two almost equivalent pure tones with slightly different frequencies leads to virtual beat perception by the brain.

Brain Computer Interface Laboratory, Department of Biomedical Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Mahidol University, Salaya, Thailand.Nantawachara Jirakittayakorn * Yodchanan Wongsawat *

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