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I've heard about binaural beats… Is this what SleepTracks is all about?

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Created	2007-10-10
Modified	2007-10-10
Views	1674
Author	Yan Muckle

No. Binaural beats are the most used form of brainwave entrainment - this is what's used by most insomnia CDs out there. With binaural beats, a slightly different tone is presented into each ear. The tones then combine in the brain to form a pulse or beat.

Entrainment in the Sleep Tracks is produced by a more effective - and more recent - kind of stimuli called "isochronic tones". What are they?

An Isochronic tone is simply a rhytmic pulse which turns on and off at a specified rate per second. Studies have found that binaural beats are not as effective as isochronic tones because of how the brain processes the pulses. Because the tones turn off so quickly, they produce extremely strong responses in the brain, which leads to the most effective possible brainwave stimulation.

What's more, binaural beats require the use of headphones, and isochronic tones do not.

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