Auditory evoked responses to binaural beat illusion: stimulus generation and the derivation of the Binaural
Ozcan Ozdamar1, Jorge Bohorquez, Todor Mihajloski
1Department of Biomedical Engineering at the University of Miami, Coral Gables, FL 33214, USA. oozdamar@miami.edu
Abstract:
Electrophysiological indices of auditory binaural beats illusions are studied using late latency evoked responses. Binaural beats are generated by continuous monaural FM tones with slightly different ascending and descending frequencies lasting about 25 ms presented at 1 sec intervals. Frequency changes are carefully adjusted to avoid any creation of abrupt waveform changes. Binaural Interaction Component (BIC) analysis is used to separate the neural responses due to binaural involvement. The results show that the transient auditory evoked responses can be obtained from the auditory illusion of binaural beats.
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