Centro de Investigacin y

Desarrollo de la Educacin
Bilinge
Universidad Autnoma de

Biology I

Mr. Alejandro Cruz

Binaural Beats

Ingrid Melissa Chvez de la Portilla 1623970

Carlos Eduardo Garcia Nio 1630675
Hugo Armando Cant Valero 1635784
Mauricio Reyna Reyna 1634296
Antonio Crdenas Hernndez 1616916
Juan Sebastin Gonzlez Bracamonte 1629823

Binaural Beats

Introduction

Actuality people have many activities that, sometimes, are impossible be

concentrated in the thing that is doing, because they are thinking in what are going
to do next. Solving this problem the binaural beats appear.
Binaural beats or a binaural tone is a term given to a measured change in brain
activity when presented with audio stimulus. When a person is presented with a
stereo sound with two different tones - the brain produces a response which is
hearing and responding to the difference between the tones, not the actual tones
themselves. They are auditory processing artifacts, or apparent sounds, the
perception of which arises in the brain for specific physical stimuli. This effect was
discovered in 1839 by Heinrich Wilhelm Dove, and earned greater public
Awareness in the late 20th century based on claims that binaural beats could help
induce relaxation, meditation, creativity and other desirable mental states.
This perceptual phenomenon of binaural beating and the objective measurement
of the frequency-following response suggest conditions which generate brain
waves activity and altered states of consciousness (hypnotic trance).
These binaural beats also can help us to do better jobs, to study and just to be
concentrate.
The sound generate a sensation of pace and is similar to the music that some
child use to sleep (peaceful melodies) and in most of the cases they are
complemented by images of calm sites or lights that perform the same functions.
We heard to the binaural beats for first time when our math teacher told us Maybe
do you heard talk about how people control his mind with just listen a melody that
can make stronger the brain, this are called binaural tones or binaural beats
This team is interests in that relax concentration and learn method. But we want to
be sure about the really impact of binaural beats in our brain, so we use the most
accurate way: the scientific method.
We saw around us how the people that use it can complete all things that need to
do without stressing and we use it like a base to form experiments that quickly
shows the results of the proves.

What is the objective of this experiment?

The objective of this experiment is to see if the binaural beats in fact work correctly,
because as all of us know, we have a lot of activities every day, and sometimes this
activities occupies a lot of time to be finished, that provokes stress and then is
impossible to be concentrated on the next activities, thats why we will use binaural
beats to check if is true that if you heard binaural beats before any activity you can
be concentrated at the time that you are doing that activity.
We will do an experiment based on do a concentration test that we found on
internet to check the time that we need to complete all test, then we will heard
binaural beats 7 minutes before the concentration test to see if in fact binaural
beats work, we will check the results and compare it by 6 different people divided
on two groups to see who has better concentration with and without using binaural
beats
Define the problem
We chose binaural beats because Mister Hector Garza talks about this topic, and
we are interesting in these sounds, we wanted to know if its really, so when the
project was mention we really wanted to provided that, and we say lets try the
binaural beats as an experiment, and that experiment gets by the curiosity of us to
know more about this.

Hypothesis

Our Hypothesis is that, you can concentrate a lot more if you listen to the binaural
beats before doing a test. The binaural beat can serve in each work, such as
concentration, relaxation, etc. In this exp. we'll try with one of concentration, and
then we will know if it really works or its just a myth.

What are the binaural beats?

Binaural beats or binaural tones are auditory processing artifacts, or apparent

sounds, the perception of which arises in the brain for specific physical stimuli.

This effect was discovered in 1839 by Heinrich

Wilhelm Dove, and earned greater public awareness in the late 20th century based
on claims that binaural beats could help induce relaxation, meditation, creativity
and other desirable mental states. The effect on the brainwaves depends on the
difference in frequencies of each tone: for example, if 300 Hz was played in one
ear and 310 in the other, then the binaural beat would have a frequency of 10 Hz.
The brain produces a phenomenon resulting in low-frequency pulsations in the
amplitude and sound localization of a perceived sound when two tones at slightly
different frequencies are presented separately, one to each of a subject's ears,
using stereo headphones. A beating tone will be perceived, as if the two tones
mixed naturally, out of the brain. The frequencies of the tones must be below 1,000
hertz for the beating to be noticeable. The difference between the two frequencies
must be small (less than or equal to 30 Hz) for the effect to occur; otherwise, the
two tones will be heard separately and no beat will be perceived.
To improve the experience of the binaural beats you must follow these steps:
The effect on the human brain of the binaural beats occurs only if the stimulus from
each of the two frequencies that are composed a through each of the researcher in
an isolated manner

You just have to relax and let the binaural beats walk around your mind.
Approximately 5-10 minutes (time quite variable depending on the person) the
brain must be synchronized with the chosen binaural beat
The volume must be adjusted to a comfortable level. High volume is not
necessarily better.
Not all people respond with equal intensity. So there are people who manage to
synchronize their brain waves with great ease, others find it hard several minutes
and there are still people that cost them a lot. The intensity, depth and duration of
the experience are also highly variable. Anyway the binaural beats method is the
most effective which is known to produce different brain waves at will and the
effects arising from this.

Procedure of the experiment

1- From the 8 people that were in the team, 6 were chosen to make the
experiment.

2- We chose a concentration test from

http://www.josepreche.com/Tiro.Arco.Concentracion/test.html. It was about
choosing a series of 10 numbers in order, one by one, in a list of 100 numbers.

3- We did it twice (without choosing the series required), just for have the
experience of the management of how to use the test.

4- The test registered the time owned by each one. These were our results:

Without the binaural beats

with the binaural beats

Andrs

1:23

1:56

Antonio

1:37

1:15

Andrea

1:00

1:23

Sebastin

2:25

1:55

Carlos

1:19

0:59

Mauricio

2:46

1:28

5- 4 of 6 people did it faster with the binaural beats, having an average of 46

seconds faster.
6- 2 of 6 people did it faster without the binaural beats, having an average of 28
seconds faster.

Variables and groups

Dependent Variable: Time of each participant with and without the Binaural
Beat.
Independent Variable: The Binaural Beat.
The controlled variable: All the people used the same binaural beats, they
listened to the binaural beats the same time, they took the same test and
they are all progressive students (Similar IQ)
Controlled group: The 6 people that did the test searching for the series 3140.
Experimental group: The same people listening during 7 minutes the
binaural beats and then, they did the test again, but now with another series,
the 41-50.

Conclusion

Our conclusion of the uses of binaural beats, is that based in our experiment, we
prove that it functions, and if it concentrate before a work or a race or for another
situation, it means that has lot of functions. There means that if you arent
concentrate in a thing you only put your binaural beats and you will be better.

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If you want to listen some binaural beats see:

http://www.i-dose.us/es/