🔇👂The sound of silence? Researchers demonstrate people hear it. Read more on how moments of silence distort people's perception of time. 🤫🕰️
The findings address the debate of whether people can hear more than sounds, which has puzzled philosophers for centuries.
The team adapted well-known auditory illusions to create versions in which the sounds of the original illusions were replaced by moments of silence. For example, one illusion made a sound seem much longer than it really was. In the team's new silence-based illusion, an equivalent moment of silence also seemed longer than it really was.
"Philosophers have long debated whether silence is something we can literally perceive, but there hasn't been a scientific study aimed directly at this question," said Chaz Firestone, an Assistant Professor of Psychological and Brain Sciences who directs the Johns Hopkins Perception & Mind Laboratory."Our approach was to ask whether our brains treat silences the way they treat sounds.
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