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 ...

Let the beat drop...your anxiety levels. We’re not talking about any old beats, but ones some therapists are using as a form of sound-wave therapy to help their patients combat anxiety. They’re called ...

When two tones of slightly different frequencies are played in separate ears simultaneously (usually through headphones), the human brain perceives the creation of a new, third tone, whose frequency ...

Many people with migraine experience sound sensitivity during or before an episode. Most people, in these cases, find that avoiding noise can help ease migraine pain. Still, this may not occur for ...

A new study sheds light on the little-known phenomenon of binaural beats, where sounds purportedly evoke psychoactive effects. A binaural beat is an illusionary tone created by the brain when ...

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 ...