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Effect of the Gamma Entrainment Frequency in Pertinence to Mood, Memory and Cognition

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Brain Informatics (BI 2020)

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This research provides evidence highlighting that through the use of a gamma 40 Hz entrainment frequency, mood, memory and cognition can be improved with respect to a 10 participant cohort. Participants constituted towards three binaural entrainment frequency groups; the 40 Hz, 25 Hz and 100 Hz respectively. Additionally, we asked participants to attend entrainment frequency sessions twice a week for a duration of four weeks. Sessions involved the assessment of a participants cognitive abilities, mood as well as memory; where the cognitive and memory assessments occurred before and after a 5 min binaural beat stimulation. The mood assessment scores were collected from sessions 1, 4 and 8 respectively. Within the gamma 40 Hz entrainment frequency group, we observed a weak statistical significance (alpha = 0.10, p = 0.076) mean improvement in cognitive scores; elevating from 75% average to 85% average upon conclusion of the experimentation. Additionally, we observed memory score improvements at a greater significance (alpha = 0.05, p = 0.0027); elevating from an average of 87% to 95%. Moreover, we observed a similar trend across the average of all of the frequency groups for the mood results. Finally, correlation analysis revealed a stronger correlation value (0.9838) within the 40 Hz group between sessions as well as mood score compared across the entire frequency group cohort.

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Sharpe, R., Mahmud, M. (2020). Effect of the Gamma Entrainment Frequency in Pertinence to Mood, Memory and Cognition. In: Mahmud, M., Vassanelli, S., Kaiser, M.S., Zhong, N. (eds) Brain Informatics. BI 2020. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 12241. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-59277-6_5

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