In recent years, Simon & Garfunkel’s 1964 signature “The Sound of Silence” has been transformed from a folk-rock classic into a meme, made to soundtrack running jokes between the internet and the ...
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. By Bethany Brookshire The hush at the end of the musical performance. The pause in a ...