How do we hear time within sound? Date: April 16, 2015 Source: PLOS Summary: How does our auditory system represent time within a sound? A new study investigates how temporal acoustic patterns can ...

How we hear distance: Echoes are essential for humans to perceive how far away a sound is. ScienceDaily . Retrieved June 1, 2025 from www.sciencedaily.com / releases / 2015 / 04 / 150401140833.htm ...

Ray Dolby, the man who revolutionized the way we hear sounds, died Thursday at age 80. Dolby invented the Dolby noise-reduction system and digital surround-sound, and to understand the man’s ...

Silence may not be a sound, but scientists say we can truly hear it. In a new study, published Monday in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, researchers examined how people ...

The findings address the debate of whether people can hear more than sounds, which has puzzled philosophers for centuries. "We typically think of our sense of hearing as being concerned with sounds.

In auditory illusion tests, people perceive silence as a form of sound, just as Simon and Garfunkel suggested. By Bethany Brookshire The hush at the end of the musical performance. The pause in a ...