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The sound of silence? Researchers prove we can hear it

Silence might not be deafening, but it's something that literally can be heard, concludes a team of philosophers and psychologists who used auditory illusions to reveal how moments of silence distort ...
Smithsonian Magazine

We Can Hear Silence Like a Sound, Scientists Say

Scientists have long debated how we perceive the absence of sound waves hitting our ears. DrPixel via Getty Images From the roar of a crowd to the quiet of a library, sound and silence might seem like ...
Science Daily

The sound of silence? Researchers demonstrate people hear it

Silence might not be deafening but it's something that literally can be heard, concludes a team of philosophers and psychologists who used auditory illusions to reveal how moments of silence distort ...
Inverse

Psychologists Just Figured Out How The Brain “Hears” the Sound of Silence

What is silence, exactly? In quiet moments, does the brain register silence the same way it hears, say, music? Or does it demarcate silence as the gaps between noises? Psychologists and philosophers ...
The New York Times

Silence Is a ‘Sound’ You Hear, Study Suggests

In auditory illusion tests, people perceive silence as a form of sound, just as Simon and Garfunkel suggested. By Bethany Brookshire The hush at the end of the musical performance. The pause in a ...