Silence activates the brain's auditory center in the same manner as sound

According to a new study, the perception of silence is not just an absence of noise but an experience the brain actively perceives.
The study found that the brain can be tricked into perceiving silences as longer or shorter, just as it can with sounds.
Researchers used audio illusions to show that people perceive silences in a similar way that they perceive sounds.
Understanding how we perceive silence provides insight into how we perceive and relate to absence in a broader sense.
Silence is a real phenomenon that we can detect and experience as an event in itself.