Evidence label: Well studied (the binaural beat as a hearing effect) Evidence label: Early evidence (effects on attention, memory and anxiety ratings) Evidence label: Speculative (brainwave entrainment and “tune your brain to X Hz” claims) “Well studied” means that the beat itself is a well-described illusion of hearing, made in the brain. The behavioural studies…
Evidence label: Well studied Evidence label: Speculative (claims that a sound reaches, resonates in or massages a particular organ) The Well studied label covers the acoustics and physiology of hearing your own voice, bone conduction, and the vibration your voice makes in your chest wall. Where and how you feel your voice in practice was…
Evidence label: Well studied (how tuning forks vibrate and sound; their use in bedside tests, with known accuracy limits) Evidence label: Speculative (therapeutic tuning-fork claims) “Well studied” covers the physics of the fork and the research on how accurate clinical fork tests are, including where they fall short. The Speculative label covers claims that forks…
Evidence label: Early evidence The Early evidence label covers a few small laboratory studies of breathing and circulation during music. Nothing here is a health claim. Author: Raymond Hackland · Last reviewed: 21 October 2026 · Reading time: about 8 minutes In short What this is: Music has a pulse and so does breathing. This…
Evidence label: Well studied (musical pleasure and the brain’s reward regions) Evidence label: Early evidence (dopamine’s role; chills vs tears) The first label is for the main finding: musical pleasure goes with activity in the brain’s reward regions. This has been found with several methods and in 17 brain-imaging experiments pooled in a meta-analysis, most…