Silence and sound are polar opposites. So, is it even possible to 'hear' silence the same way we do other noises? Find out below.
However, despite silence and sound being polar opposites, scientists are suggesting that our brains process them the same way.It has been over half a century since Simon & Garfunkel sang about, and it turns out the song may have been prophetic in a way, as researchers have found that silence is discernible by the human ear.
They examined this by using well-known auditory illusions, but adapted so that silences substituted for sounds. The results? It was found that the tweaked, silence-based illusions elicited the same brain responses as the original auditory illusions across all 1,000 participants. This, the authors say, strongly suggests that silence is actually heard and not just a phenomenon that the brain infers within the context of other noises.
However, Chaz Firestone, a co-author of the study, stresses that"silence, whatever it is, is not a sound."Some food for thought for the next time you feel like you’re experiencing a deafening silence!
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