Psychologists just figured out how the brain “hears” the sound of silence

What is silence, exactly? In quiet moments, does the brain register silence the same way it hears, say, music? Or does it demarcate silence as the gaps between noises?

Psychologists and philosophers at Johns Hopkins University dug into the question of how the brain processes sound. Using aural illusions, the researchers demonstrated that the brain does, in fact, actively process quietness as it processes sound. FULL STORY from Inverse