A comparison of the effects of cognitive rehabilitation and binaural beats on creativity, psychological well-being, and academic performance in university students

This study compared the effects of cognitive rehabilitation and binaural beats on creativity, psychological well-being, and academic performance in 45 undergraduate students using a quasi-experimental pretest-posttest design with a control group. Creativity, well-being, and academic performance were assessed via validated questionnaires. The MANCOVA results revealed a significant overall effect of the interventions. Follow-up univariate analyses, controlling for pretest scores, showed that cognitive rehabilitation significantly improved creativity and academic performance, while binaural beats enhanced academic performance but not creativity. No intervention had a significant effect on psychological well-being. Effect sizes were large for academic performance, medium for creativity, and negligible for well-being. These findings suggest that cognitive rehabilitation was associated with significant improvements in both creativity and academic outcomes, whereas binaural beats may provide limited short-term benefits in academic performance, with neither intervention affecting psychological well-being in the short term.