SoundSelf Activates Identical Brainwave Patterns to High-Dose Psychedelics and Deep Meditation

Pilot Study: SoundSelf vs Sham (guided meditation VR) using Quantitative EEG, Altered States, and Mood.

Conducted by Jeff Tarrant, Ph.D., BCN & Fabiola Einhorn at the NeuroMeditation Institute

Dr. Jeff Tarrant is a licensed psychologist and board-certified in neurofeedback. He is the Director of the NeuroMeditation Institute and author of the book, Meditation Interventions to Rewire the Brain.

SoundSelf has been measured to produce a combination of brainwave patterns that are the signature of psychedelic experience:

  • An increase of gamma across the brain
  • A descrease in activity in regions associated with the Default Mode Network
  • A decrease in alpha in the anterior

This pilot study showed that SoundSelf’s unique mechanism of voice-activated biofeedback results in rapid and significant changes in brain state, which is accompanied by improved measures of mood. The reduction in language-processing activity and changes in default mode network (DMN) highlight the synesthetic and multi-sensory facets of expanded states of consciousness. Changes in the DMN suggest SoundSelf works by reducing functional integration of the DMN, and directing awareness of the user towards interoceptive signals. This mechanism, involving the DMN and greater exposure to bottom-up signals, was recently proposed by psychedelic researcher Robin Carhart Harris in “REBUS and the Anarchic Brain: Toward a Unified Model of the Brain Action of Psychedelics”.

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SoundSelf Activates Identical Brainwave Patterns to High-Dose Psychedelics and Deep Meditation

SoundSelf Activates Identical Brainwave Patterns to High-Dose Psychedelics and Deep Meditation

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Pilot Study: SoundSelf vs Sham (guided meditation VR) using Quantitative EEG, Altered States, and Mood.

Conducted by Jeff Tarrant, Ph.D., BCN & Fabiola Einhorn at the NeuroMeditation Institute

Dr. Jeff Tarrant is a licensed psychologist and board-certified in neurofeedback. He is the Director of the NeuroMeditation Institute and author of the book, Meditation Interventions to Rewire the Brain.

SoundSelf has been measured to produce a combination of brainwave patterns that are the signature of psychedelic experience:

  • An increase of gamma across the brain
  • A descrease in activity in regions associated with the Default Mode Network
  • A decrease in alpha in the anterior

This pilot study showed that SoundSelf’s unique mechanism of voice-activated biofeedback results in rapid and significant changes in brain state, which is accompanied by improved measures of mood. The reduction in language-processing activity and changes in default mode network (DMN) highlight the synesthetic and multi-sensory facets of expanded states of consciousness. Changes in the DMN suggest SoundSelf works by reducing functional integration of the DMN, and directing awareness of the user towards interoceptive signals. This mechanism, involving the DMN and greater exposure to bottom-up signals, was recently proposed by psychedelic researcher Robin Carhart Harris in “REBUS and the Anarchic Brain: Toward a Unified Model of the Brain Action of Psychedelics”.

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