Eliminating the attentional blink through binaural beats: A case for tailored cognitive enhancement
Enhancing human cognitive performance is a topic that continues to spark scientific interest. Studies into cognitive enhancement techniques often fail to take inter-individual differences into account, however, which leads to underestimation of the effectiveness of these techniques. The current stud...
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| author | Susan A. Reedijk Susan A. Reedijk Anne eBolders Anne eBolders Lorenza S Colzato Lorenza S Colzato Bernhard eHommel Bernhard eHommel |
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| description | Enhancing human cognitive performance is a topic that continues to spark scientific interest. Studies into cognitive enhancement techniques often fail to take inter-individual differences into account, however, which leads to underestimation of the effectiveness of these techniques. The current study investigated the effect of binaural beats, a cognitive enhancement technique, on attentional control in an attentional blink task. As predicted from a neurocognitive approach to cognitive control, high-frequency binaural beats eliminated the attentional blink, but only in individuals with low spontaneous eye-blink rates (indicating low striatal dopamine levels). This suggests that the way in which cognitive enhancement techniques, such as binaural beats, affect cognitive performance depends on inter-individual differences. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-d0fd640bae3b4798b8823768e18da7ca2022-12-21T19:19:25ZengFrontiers Media S.A.Frontiers in Psychiatry1664-06402015-06-01610.3389/fpsyt.2015.00082132219Eliminating the attentional blink through binaural beats: A case for tailored cognitive enhancementSusan A. Reedijk0Susan A. Reedijk1Anne eBolders2Anne eBolders3Lorenza S Colzato4Lorenza S Colzato5Bernhard eHommel6Bernhard eHommel7Leiden UniversityLeiden Institute for Brain and CognitionLeiden UniversityLeiden Institute for Brain and CognitionLeiden UniversityLeiden Institute for Brain and CognitionLeiden UniversityLeiden Institute for Brain and CognitionEnhancing human cognitive performance is a topic that continues to spark scientific interest. Studies into cognitive enhancement techniques often fail to take inter-individual differences into account, however, which leads to underestimation of the effectiveness of these techniques. The current study investigated the effect of binaural beats, a cognitive enhancement technique, on attentional control in an attentional blink task. As predicted from a neurocognitive approach to cognitive control, high-frequency binaural beats eliminated the attentional blink, but only in individuals with low spontaneous eye-blink rates (indicating low striatal dopamine levels). This suggests that the way in which cognitive enhancement techniques, such as binaural beats, affect cognitive performance depends on inter-individual differences.http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fpsyt.2015.00082/fullAttentionAttentional BlinkDopamineneurotransmitterscognitive enhancementbinaural beats |
| spellingShingle | Susan A. Reedijk Susan A. Reedijk Anne eBolders Anne eBolders Lorenza S Colzato Lorenza S Colzato Bernhard eHommel Bernhard eHommel Eliminating the attentional blink through binaural beats: A case for tailored cognitive enhancement Frontiers in Psychiatry Attention Attentional Blink Dopamine neurotransmitters cognitive enhancement binaural beats |
| title | Eliminating the attentional blink through binaural beats: A case for tailored cognitive enhancement |
| title_full | Eliminating the attentional blink through binaural beats: A case for tailored cognitive enhancement |
| title_fullStr | Eliminating the attentional blink through binaural beats: A case for tailored cognitive enhancement |
| title_full_unstemmed | Eliminating the attentional blink through binaural beats: A case for tailored cognitive enhancement |
| title_short | Eliminating the attentional blink through binaural beats: A case for tailored cognitive enhancement |
| title_sort | eliminating the attentional blink through binaural beats a case for tailored cognitive enhancement |
| topic | Attention Attentional Blink Dopamine neurotransmitters cognitive enhancement binaural beats |
| url | http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fpsyt.2015.00082/full |
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