An intriguing aspect of the early memories is that remembrances seem to emerge into consciousness in silence. Recalling an early recollection can be like watching an old silent movie. While this may ...

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 ...

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 ...

Susan Philipsz “Study for Strings” (2012) (all photographs by the author for Hyperallergic) The Museum of Modern Art’s first foray into a group exhibition of sound art, Soundings: A Contemporary Score ...

Julian Treasure is a sought-after and top-rated international speaker. Collectively his five TED talks on various aspects of ...

Ultimate Classic Rock reports Simon wrote “The Sound of Silence” in 1964. The track, originally titled “The Sounds of Silence,” was part of the album Wednesday Morning, 3 A.M. The album was not a ...

The problem with silence is that it is so terribly noisy. We’ve all been sold a lie. In reality, nothing in nature is truly silent and there’s a lot going on in the darkness; the sound of your own ...