Editing Silence (section)

==Perception==
In the philosophy of perception and the science of perception, there has been a longstanding controversy as to how humans experience silence: "the [[Perception|perceptual]] view (we literally hear silence), and the [[Cognition|cognitive]] view (we only [[wikt:judgment|judge]] or [[Inference|infer]] silence)", with prominent theories holding the latter view.<ref name=PNAS_20230710/> However, a study published in 2023 in the ''[[Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America|Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences]]'' reported findings based on empirical experiments testing whether temporal distortions known to be experienced with respect to sounds, were also analogously experienced with respect to periods of silence.<ref name=PNAS_20230710/> The experimental results in all cases suggested that, at least in this context, humans respond to moments of silence the same way as to sounds—supporting the perceptual view that humans literally hear silence.<ref name=PNAS_20230710>{{cite journal |last1=Goh |first1=Rui Zhe |last2=Phillips |first2=Ian B. |last3=Firestone |first3=Chaz |title=The perception of silence |journal=Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America |date=10 July 2023 |volume=120 |issue=29 |page=e2301463120 |doi=10.1073/pnas.2301463120 |pmid=37428927 |bibcode=2023PNAS..12001463G |doi-access=free |pmc=10629541 }}</ref>