Humans can match durations of silence to sounds of similar length.

Evidence

This has been studied by asking subjects to adjust the length of silence between two bursts so that it is equal to the length of a test sound. The result of this experiment is shown in Figure 10.20, which indicates the physical duration of the silence Tp when it has been adjusted to match the corresponding perceptual durations of the test sound. — Ville Pulkki, Matti Karjalainen, Communication Acoustics- An…, 1190

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Chorus males actively slot calls into silent gaps to reduce overlap — Almo Farina, Soundscape Ecology: Principles,…, 1685