Thread: If binaural beats change to a different frequency will you immediately change with it?

Hello everyone,

This thought crossed my mind the other day and I could not find an answer to it on the internet. The question is: if you are listening to binaural beats at a certain frequency, and you have become entrained to the frequency, if the frequency slowly changes to another one, will you slowly change with it or will you have to start all over and become entrained to each individual new frequency? Thank you for your answer and help!

I only have the tiniest knowledge of the literature on this, but I've taken part in several EEG experiments that tested auditory entrainment, so maybe I can contribute something. Ready your pinch of salt. I reckon that if the change is gradual/slow enough, your neural entrainment should keep pace with the auditory stimulus. However if there's a relatively large, instant change in frequency, the entrainment process may well start again. This has surely been tested though, I recommend searching Google Scholar with some terms like "auditory entrainment", "frequency" and "EEG", if you haven't already. Do you know how long the entrainment process takes? I can't imagine it's very long - less than 10 minutes, surely.