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 ...

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 ...

Do we have a bat signal for Paul Simon? In a new paper, a team of philosophers and psychologists at Johns Hopkins University claims to have finally settled an ancient debate: whether you can actually ...

The post Disturbed’s “The Sound of Silence” Video Passes One Billion Views on YouTube appeared first on Consequence. The music video for Disturbed’s haunting cover of the Simon & Garfunkel classic ...

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 ...

What is silence, exactly? In quiet moments, does the brain register silence the same way it hears, say, music? Or does it demarcate silence as the gaps between noises? Psychologists and philosophers ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 entirety ...

The Strovolos Municipal Cultural Centre will host the exhibition Sound of Silence by artist Christos Nicolaou, from October 25.Beyond just displaying the artist’s creations, the exhibition will be ...