eliminating the attentional blink through binaural beats: a case for tailored cognitive enhancement

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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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Authors ;Susan A. Reedijk;Susan A. Reedijk;Anne eBolders;Anne eBolders;Lorenza S Colzato;Lorenza S Colzato;Bernhard eHommel;Bernhard eHommel
Journal journal of experimental psychology general
Year 2015
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10.3389/fpsyt.2015.00082
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