A month of daily 6 Hz binaural beats and attention (Chockboondee 2024)

Compared with a silent control group, four weeks of daily listening raised auditory P300 amplitude and shortened P300 latency, and reaction times were faster. The control was silence rather than a sham sound, so expectancy effects are not ruled out.

A plain-language summary from binaural's reading notes, edited by Jude Mc. Last updated 10 November 2026. Not medical advice.

The question: Does listening to 6 Hz binaural beats for 10 minutes a day over a month change brain responses linked to attention?

What it found

• Listening to 6 Hz binaural beats increased auditory and visual P300 amplitude at every visit, and increased auditory N200 consistently (visual N200 only at visits 2–3).
• Relative to the control group, 2 weeks of daily practice raised auditory P300 amplitude.
• After 4 weeks, auditory P300 amplitude was raised and P300 latency was shorter.
• Reaction times fell significantly in the listening group after one month and were faster than in the control group.

Limits

• The control was silence, not an active auditory sham, so expectancy, placebo and generic effects of listening to something are not ruled out; the authors call for a placebo-audio arm.
• Home compliance was self-reported in a logbook, not monitored.
• Event-related potentials and reaction times are process measures, not real-world cognitive outcomes.
• The study is explicitly framed as preliminary and included healthy adults only.

Where this sits

More in the library on attention, memory and thinking. For the wider picture, read Binaural beats for focus and studying.

This is our plain-language reading of the paper. It is not medical advice, and one study rarely settles a question.