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 ...

sandy.hershcovis@haskayne.ucalgary.ca receives funding from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada. Ivana Vranjes, Jennifer L. Berdahl, and Lilia M. Cortina do not work for, ...

I first became interested in silence over 15 years ago when an overdose of New York City noise got me wondering if and how I could find refuge in its opposite, in absolute quiet—something that was not ...