Silence, Sound, and Affect

The Sound of Silence

When choosing between alternatives of uncertain quality, one can learn from other decision-makers either through communicating with them about the reasons underlying their choices, or through simply observing their choices. The former way of learning has been extensively studied in the word-of-mouth (WOM) literature, while the latter way, labelled silent word-of-mouth (SWOM), has received less ...

The Sound of Silence: Ionic Mechanisms Encoding Sound Termination

Offset responses upon termination of a stimulus are crucial for perceptual grouping and gap detection. These gaps are key features of vocal communication, but an ionic mechanism capable of generating fast offsets from auditory stimuli has proven elusive. Offset firing arises in the brainstem superior paraolivary nucleus (SPN), which receives powerful inhibition during sound and converts this in...

Natural antisense transcripts: sound or silence?

Antisense RNA was a rather uncommon term in a physiology environment until short interfering RNAs emerged as the tool of choice to knock down the expression of specific genes. As a consequence, the concept of RNA having regulatory potential became widely accepted. Yet, there is more to come. Computational studies suggest that between 15 and 25% of mammalian genes overlap, giving rise to pairs o...

Inhabited silence: sound constructions of monastic spatiality

Pain management-the global sound of silence.