that puts sounds, or rather lack of sounds, to the test with auditory illusions.
Instead of testing different sounds, the study authors input sequences of silence between sequences of loud scenarios like being at a busy restaurant. However, one of the sequences of silence was clipped shorter before going back to the louder sequence and back again to silence. The participants then had to determine which sequence of silence was shorter or longer when in actuality they were both the same length.
In their findings, most participants thought one long moment of silence was longer than two short moments of silence.
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