Research

Papers, not captions

A reading shelf of 32 peer-reviewed papers and literature portals. Newest work first. Mixed and null results stay on the shelf. This console is not a trial protocol.

Drawers below filter the same 32 essays — every card is in this HTML. The evidence map is a different page: literature-to-program, not this paper shelf. Band labels as listening design: explained pages.

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Peer-reviewed work on dichotic beats, EEG, vigilance, anxiety, and the limits of “entrainment.”

Binaural Beats to Entrain the Brain? EEG Review Frontiers in Human Neuroscience · 2023Binaural Beats to Entrain the Brain? EEG Review Garcia-Argibay et al. — Efficacy of Binaural Beats Psychological Research · 2019Garcia-Argibay et al. — Efficacy of Binaural Beats Chaieb et al. — Monaural Beats, Anxiety, Cognition Frontiers in Psychiatry · 2017Chaieb et al. — Monaural Beats, Anxiety, Cognition Colzato et al. — Gamma Beats and Feature Bindings Cognitive control · 2017Colzato et al. — Gamma Beats and Feature Bindings Jirakittayakorn & Wongsawat — 6-Hz Beat 6 Hz · 2017Jirakittayakorn & Wongsawat — 6-Hz Beat López-Caballero & Escera — A Failure to Enhance EEG Frontiers in Human Neuroscience · 2017López-Caballero & Escera — A Failure to Enhance EEG Beauchene et al. — Beats, Memory, Connectivity Working memory · 2016/17Beauchene et al. — Beats, Memory, Connectivity Reedijk et al. — Beats and the Attentional Blink Attentional blink · 2015Reedijk et al. — Beats and the Attentional Blink Nozaradan et al. — Tagging Beat and Meter Journal of Neuroscience · 2011Nozaradan et al. — Tagging Beat and Meter Thut & Miniussi — Rhythmic Brain Activity, TMS-EEG Trends in Cognitive Sciences · 2009Thut & Miniussi — Rhythmic Brain Activity, TMS-EEG Wahbeh et al. — Binaural Beat Technology: Pilot J. Altern. Complement. Med. · 2007Wahbeh et al. — Binaural Beat Technology: Pilot Padmanabhan et al. — Pre-operative Anxiety Anaesthesia · 2005Padmanabhan et al. — Pre-operative Anxiety Lane et al. — Vigilance Performance and Mood Physiology & Behavior · 1998Lane et al. — Vigilance Performance and Mood Oster — Auditory Beats in the Brain Scientific American · 1973Oster — Auditory Beats in the Brain

EEG, fMRI, and clinical reviews of meditation and mindfulness — the serious literature, not a brochure.

Fox et al. — Functional Neuroanatomy of Meditation Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews · 2016Fox et al. — Functional Neuroanatomy of Meditation Tang, Hölzel & Posner — Mindfulness Neuroscience Nature Reviews Neuroscience · 2015Tang, Hölzel & Posner — Mindfulness Neuroscience Goyal et al. — Meditation Programs for Stress JAMA Internal Medicine · 2014Goyal et al. — Meditation Programs for Stress Hölzel et al. — Gray Matter after MBSR Psychiatry Research: Neuroimaging · 2011Hölzel et al. — Gray Matter after MBSR Zeidan et al. — Brief Mindfulness and Cognition Consciousness and Cognition · 2010Zeidan et al. — Brief Mindfulness and Cognition Cahn & Polich — Meditation States and Traits Psychological Bulletin · 2006Cahn & Polich — Meditation States and Traits Lutz et al. — High-Amplitude Gamma Synchrony PNAS · 2004Lutz et al. — High-Amplitude Gamma Synchrony Davidson et al. — Brain and Immune Function Psychosomatic Medicine · 2003Davidson et al. — Brain and Immune Function

Laboratory lucid-dream and out-of-body science: hybrid REM, induction methods, multisensory body maps. The thesis that uses this shelf is Sector 7G // Research.

Baird, Mota-Rolim & Dresler — Lucid Dreaming Review Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews · 2019Baird, Mota-Rolim & Dresler — Lucid Dreaming Review Stumbrys et al. — Induction of Lucid Dreams Consciousness and Cognition · 2012Stumbrys et al. — Induction of Lucid Dreams Voss et al. — Lucid Dreaming as a Hybrid State Sleep · 2009Voss et al. — Lucid Dreaming as a Hybrid State Ehrsson — Experimental Out-of-Body Illusions Science · 2007Ehrsson — Experimental Out-of-Body Illusions Blanke et al. — Illusory Own-Body Perceptions Nature · 2002Blanke et al. — Illusory Own-Body Perceptions

PubMed, Scholar, Cochrane — keep reading primary literature instead of captions.

Cochrane Library High barCochrane Library PubMed — Binaural Beats Index · livePubMed — Binaural Beats PubMed — Lucid Dreaming Index · livePubMed — Lucid Dreaming PubMed — Meditation EEG Index · livePubMed — Meditation EEG Google Scholar — Binaural Beats Index · wideGoogle Scholar — Binaural Beats

Editorial readings of published research. The official paper is authoritative. Not medical advice. Prefer PubMed and the PDF when a claim matters.

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