Impact of binaural beats on creativity
Explanation
A binaural beat is an auditory illusion perceived when two different pure-tone sine waves, both with frequencies lower than 1500 Hz, with less than a 40 Hz difference between them, are presented to a listener dichotically (one through each ear).
I wanted to understand if Binaural beats would have an impact on the degree of creativity that is exhibited by individuals.
I considered a series of tests that they would have to perform twice , once while listening to an audio file and once without.
While I understand that "creativity" is extremely difficult to quantify, the purpose of this experiement was to quantify how subjects would perform on a series of tests under the influence of Binaural beats.
Process
Subjects were given a series of activities to perform two times ( order decided randomly ). The activities had to be performed once while listening to the audio and once without.
Results
While there is a slight improvement with regard to the amount of cohesion and speed that the subjects exhibited, it remains to be seen if this is just a random coincidence or a result that can be replicated.
For a more detailed explanation : https://github.com/saurabh-rao/Binaural-beats-creativity/blob/master/paper.docx