........................................................................................................................................ i Chapter 1: Introduction and Literature Review ............................................................................1 Chapter 2: Methods ......................................................................................................................

Binaural beats are an auditory phenomenon that has been suggested to alter physiological and cognitive processes including vigilance and brainwave entrainment. Some personality traits measured by the NEO Five Factor Model have been found to alter entrainment using pulsing light stimuli, but as yet no studies have examined if this occurs using steady state presentation of binaural beats for a re...

Increasing evidence suggests that cognitive-control processes can be configured to optimize either persistence of information processing (by amplifying competition between decision-making alternatives and top-down biasing of this competition) or flexibility (by dampening competition and biasing). We investigated whether high-frequency binaural beats, an auditory illusion suspected to act as a c...

This publication is a companion to a paper which extends the position-variable model to describe and predict binaural lateralization and detection phenomena at frequencies up to 1200 Hz. The most important modification made to the model is the development of a frequency-dependent form of a function referred to as p(τ | f) that describes the relative number of binaural concidence detectors in th...

This paper presents: a summary of features of the human auditory system and aspects of SHL that support suspicion of an adaptive sub-band binaural noise-cancellation process; description of a diverse sub-band adaptive processing (DSBAP) approach; experimental results indicating that DSBAP shows promise as a method of speech enhancement for hearing aids.