Abstract
This feasibility study aimed to assess the opportunity to use binaural beat stimulation to support children’s performance in sustained attention tasks. Binaural beat stimulation produces changes in brainwave amplitudes, which can imply differences in cognitive performance. Sustained attention is a key competence for children to learn and integrate different elements of new knowledge and generalize across contexts. Twenty-four children were involved, participating in three different experimental conditions. They were required to perform a sustained attention task while exposed to a different auditory stimulation. The results highlighted that binaural beat stimulation is helpful in improving participants’ performance by increasing the attention level at the beginning of the task. Findings should be replicated in an ecological context. This contribution advances the possibility of providing school environments with useful and low-cost instruments that can indirectly sustain children’s learning processes.