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My favorite headphones of CES 2024 can read your brain waves and help you focus better — you’ve got to see this

January 11, 2024
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I had to admit I was both skeptical and mildly freaked out when I found out I was going to get a chance to test out Neurable's brain-sensing tech stuffed inside headphones here at CES 2024. But now that I've tried it I think it could be a game changer.

Neurable has partnered with audiophile brand Master & Dynamics to release the MW75-Neuro, which will be coming to market before the end of March for $649. That may be pricier than the AirPods Max and most of the best headphones we typically test, the MW75-Neuro combines better sound with something no one else has done before.

I demoed a prototype pair of headphones using Neurable's brain-computer interface, which leverages neural sensors to measure brainwaves. As I started reading a series of numbers popping up on a laptop screen, I could see my focus level start to spike. The same thing happened when I read a web article on my iPhone.


2 Distraction Stroop Tasks experiment: The Stroop Effect (also known as cognitive interference) is a psychological phenomenon describing the difficulty people have naming a color when it's used to spell the name of a different color. During each trial of this experiment, we flashed the words “Red” or “Yellow” on a screen. Participants were asked to respond to the color of the words and ignore their meaning by pressing four keys on the keyboard –– “D”, “F”, “J”, and “K,” -- which were mapped to “Red,” “Green,” “Blue,” and “Yellow” colors, respectively. Trials in the Stroop task were categorized into congruent, when the text content matched the text color (e.g. Red), and incongruent, when the text content did not match the text color (e.g., Red). The incongruent case was counter-intuitive and more difficult. We expected to see lower accuracy, higher response times, and a drop in Alpha band power in incongruent trials. To mimic the chaotic distraction environment of in-person office life, we added an additional layer of complexity by floating the words on different visual backgrounds (a calm river, a roller coaster, a calm beach, and a busy marketplace). Both the behavioral and neural data we collected showed consistently different results in incongruent tasks, such as longer reaction times and lower Alpha waves, particularly when the words appeared on top of the marketplace background, the most distracting scene.

Interruption by Notification: It’s widely known that push notifications decrease focus level. In our three Interruption by Notification experiments, participants performed the Stroop Tasks, above, with and without push notifications, which consisted of a sound played at random time followed by a prompt to complete an activity. Our behavioral analysis and focus metrics showed that, on average, participants presented slower reaction times and were less accurate during blocks of time with distractions compared to those without them.

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