For most people, if the title doesn’t interject properly, there’s a good chance that the song Simon & Garfunkel, produced by Simon & Garfunkel, is ringing in our ears because of the frequency it’s heard so many times. sound of silence The classic, whose title claim — that silence actually has a sound — had previously been scientifically unproven.
This is not surprising, because this assumption is quite contradictory, since by definition silence is the absence of sound itself, according to recent research.
People hear and perceive silence in exactly the same way that people hear silence.
According to the researchers, the brain actively processes silence itself, which may also explain why we pay so much attention to long, awkward pauses in conversations, the time between grumbling at the sky or the sudden silence after a theatrical performance or concert.
Scientists formulated the statement after studying seven experiments conducted on a focus group of 1,000 people, who tried to determine that the perception of silence is similar to the perception of sound with various tricks aimed at the mind.
And all this has been proven, because when a person is played two continuous and then separate audio clips, his brain always perceives that the continuous part is longer than the two separate ones. And this – as it turns out – is also true in the case of silence, we always perceive a continuous silent silence as longer than that, as if it were interrupted by something with a sound effect.
The results thus suggest that we hear silence in the same way as we hear sounds, so the term “the sound of silence” is indeed apt.
Effects for auditory processing of sound also occur in silence, which indicates that we do indeed hear the absence of sound, i.e. silence as well.
said the for the Daily Mail Professor Ian Phillips, one of the authors of the study.
