More attentional focusing through binaural beats: evidence from the global–local task

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• 作者：Lorenza S. Colzato ; Hayley Barone ; Roberta Sellaro…
• 刊名：Psychological Research
• 出版年：2017
• 出版时间：January 2017
• 年：2017
• 卷：81
• 期：1
• 页码：271-277
• 全文大小：387KB
• 刊物类别：Behavioral Science
• 刊物主题：Psychology Research;
• 出版者：Springer Berlin Heidelberg
• ISSN：1430-2772
• 卷排序：81

文摘

A recent study showed that binaural beats have an impact on the efficiency of allocating attention over time. We were interested to see whether this impact affects attentional focusing or, even further, the top-down control over irrelevant information. Healthy adults listened to gamma-frequency (40 Hz) binaural beats, which are assumed to increase attentional concentration, or a constant tone of 340 Hz (control condition) for 3 min before and during a global–local task. While the size of the congruency effect (indicating the failure to suppress task-irrelevant information) was unaffected by the binaural beats, the global-precedence effect (reflecting attentional focusing) was considerably smaller after gamma-frequency binaural beats than after the control condition. Our findings suggest that high-frequency binaural beats bias the individual attentional processing style towards a reduced spotlight of attention.