philosophers thousands of years ago “Silence” The debate over whether or not to hear them seems to have come to an end today. Seven different experiments with 1000 participants showed that silence is a kind of sound, not a ‘deprivation of sound’.

in America from Johns Hopkins University a group of researchers carried out the study in question with a group of participants that is not small. After a few seconds of silence, they played the audio illusions with audibly loud scenario sequences. The result is quite surprising!

In the study, people listened to the sound of a noisy restaurant and train.

Normally, a single long sound is comparable to two shorter sounds, where the total duration of the two shorter sounds is equal to the sum of the longer sound. But when people listen to sounds, they notice that one sound lasts longer. Researchers like this illusion, Silence used for.

Listened restaurant and train sounds They worked the silence between them as long as short and had all participants listen to the same sounds. Participants had the illusion that a silence was longer each time they listened to the sounds, just as they would perceive the illusion of a longer sound. In this study, in which silence sequences were added between the played sounds, the participants could determine which silence sequence was longer or shorter.

The researchers surprised the researchers that they could easily spot the silence in these background sounds that they didn’t know contained a sequence of silence. Chaz Firestone, pioneer of the study: “What do you get with sounds your illusions if you can get the same thing with silences, that could be proof that we literally hear silence” said.

As a result of the study, it was seen that silence was heard

Participants took a single silence in two separate sessions, even though the total duration was the same. longer than silence and they were able to discern the silences divided into parts within the sounds. So in the study, the researchers found that people can still hear when sounds are replaced by silence.

Many studies now show us that silence can be important in perceiving sounds. Just like when we pause between words when speaking. The philosophers quarrelwhether silence is perceived or not” The problem appears to have been resolved by the scientific community.