These Are Their Brains on Silence

Asking scientists about silence is sort of like asking writers about the spaces between words. Most of us pay close attention to our language, not its absence. Even so, for my 2014 Nautilus story, “This Is Your Brain on Silence,” a dozen researchers in fields like neuroscience and biology listened patiently while I asked them an odd question. Do you like silence? Why?

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