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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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
KUOW

Listening For The Sound Of Silence In Washington's Hoh Rain Forest

Matt Mikkelsen carries “Fritz,” his microphone system, to the path in the Hoh Rain Forest that leads to One Square Inch of Silence in Washington’s Olympic ...
CounterPunch

Listening to the Sound of Silence: the Power, Politics and Meaning of Silence

“We used to use our culture to understand cancer. Now we use cancer to understand our culture.” (From NPR interview of Pulitzer Prize winning author of “The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of ...
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The sound of silence? Researchers prove 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 ...