Study discovers that ear muscles wiggle to help people listen better
Muscles only believed to be used to wiggle our ears actually enable people to listen more intently, reveals new research. Researchers have found that the auricular muscles, which helped our distant ancestors move their ears to improve hearing quality,
Ear Muscle Found Active When Straining to Listen
If you can wiggle your ears, you can use muscles that helped our distant ancestors listen closely. These auricular muscles helped change the shape of
'Vestigial' human ear-wiggling muscle actually flexes when we're straining to hear
A mechanism that activates specific muscles in our ears is a leftover from our evolutionary past, back when our ancestors depended more on their hearing for survival.
Ear muscle we thought humans didn't use—except for wiggling our ears—activates during focused listening
If you can wiggle your ears, you can use muscles that helped our distant ancestors listen closely. These auricular muscles helped change the shape of the pinna, or the shell of the ear, funneling sound to the eardrums.
Humans Lost the Ability to Swivel Their Ears—But These Vestigial Muscles Still Twitch
Evolution has largely deprived us of our ability to swivel our ears, but those vestigial muscles still activate when we listen intently, according to new research.
'Obsolete' muscle that wiggles ears actually activates while listening
A muscle that we thought served no purpose beyond enabling some people to wiggle their ears is actually active when we are trying hard to listen
Yale Physicists Unveil Hidden “Modes” in the Human Ear, Redefining How We Hear
Yale researchers discovered new cochlear hearing modes that influence how the ear amplifies sound and processes frequencies.
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