Aural illusions help researchers at Johns Hopkins University demonstrate that the brain processes silence in the same way it processes sound.

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The fact that these silence-based illusions produced exactly the same results as their sound-based counterparts suggests that people hear silence just like they hear sounds, the researchers said.

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 ...

In auditory illusion tests, people perceive silence as a form of sound, just as Simon and Garfunkel suggested.

Only Paul Simon could command the sound of silence like this. In the opening act of the first of five sold-out shows on his comeback tour at NYC’s Beacon Theatre, the music legend played the ...