title: Auditory evoked responses to binaural beat illusion: stimulus generation and the derivation of the Binaural Interaction Component (BIC).
abstract: Electrophysiological indices of auditory binaural beats illusions are studied using late latency evoked responses. Binaural beats are generated by continuous monaural FM tones with slightly different ascending and descending frequencies lasting about 25 ms presented at 1 sec intervals. Frequency changes are carefully adjusted to avoid any creation of abrupt waveform changes. Binaural Interaction Component (BIC) analysis is used to separate the neural responses due to binaural involvement. The results show that the transient auditory evoked responses can be obtained from the auditory illusion of binaural beats.
authors.affiliation: Department of Biomedical Engineering at the University of Miami, Coral Gables, FL 33214, USA. oozdamar@miami.edu
authors.forename: Ozcan
authors.initials: O
authors.lastname: Ozdamar
authors.forename: Jorge
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Bohorquez
authors.forename: Todor
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Mihajloski
authors.forename: Erdem
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Yavuz
authors.forename: Magdalena
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Lachowska
mesh_terms: D000161:Acoustic Stimulation / Q000379:methods*; D003463:Cues; D004569:Electroencephalography / Q000379:methods*; D005072:Evoked Potentials, Auditory / Q000502:physiology*; D006801:Humans; D007088:Illusions / Q000502:physiology*; D011930:Reaction Time / Q000502:physiology*