Bug#409549: ITP: gnaural -- A programmable binaural-beat audio generator
Package: wnpp
Owner: "Lionel Le Folgoc (mr_pouit)" <mrpouit@gmail.com>
Severity: wishlist
* Package name : gnaural
Version : 0.3.20060421
Upstream Author : Bret Logan <gnaural@users.sourceforge.net>
* URL : http://gnaural.sourceforge.net/
* License : GPL
Programming Lang: C
Description : A programmable binaural-beat audio generator
Gnaural is a programmable "binaural beat generator", based on the
principle first described in
October 1973 Scientific American, Gerald Oster, Auditory Beats in the
Brain. There has been
considerable research done on this principle since that publication,
and Gnaural's predecessor,
WinAural, has even been used as the audio stimulus in a study
published in the proceedings of
Biomedical Engineering 2004, "The Induced Rhythmic Oscillations of
Neural Activity in the
Human Brain", D. Cvetkovic, D. Djuwari, I. Cosic (Australia), From
Proceeding (417) Biomedical
Engineering - 2004.
.
The central idea of the Binaural Beat principle is that brain
activity can be entrained to the
auditory beat frequencies created when each ear is presented
simultaneously with tones of
slightly-differing frequency. It has been proposed that entrainment
can be used to target specific
mental states, ranging from restful and meditative to highly alert.
.
Gnaural can output directly to your computer's soundsystem, or to an
audio file (.WAV format),
which you can then burn to an audio CD or compress to MP3 to make
available for portable use.
Stereo headphones are required to maintain the stereo separation of
the tones needed for your
auditory system to create the binaural beats.
.
Homepage: http://gnaural.sourceforge.net/
- -- System Information:
Debian Release: 4.0
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (100, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.18-4-686
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
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