Vestigial human ear muscles react to sounds even if the external ear does not move. This could be used to build better earing aids. If you hear something interesting, you might prick up your ears ...

Previous explanations of middle ear muscle activity have only considered possible acoustic functions1–4. However, in waking, unrestrained cats, ...

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THE primary afferent ending of the mammalian muscle spindle is highly sensitive to vibration1–4. In the presence of fusimotor activity it may discharge an impulse on each cycle of vibration ...

Ancient ear-wiggling muscles kick on when people strain to hear. That auricular activity, described January 30 in Frontiers in Neuroscience, probably doesn’t do much, if anything. But these ...

Human ears can’t prick up, but the vestigial ear muscles sure try Humans actually have vestigial muscles that activate when listening closely to something, even though people lost the ability to ...

A muscle that 'perks' the ear could hold clues to make better hearing aids By Nell Greenfieldboyce Published January 31, 2025 at 4:32 PM EST ...

Vestigial human ear muscles react to sounds even if the external ear does not move. This could be used to build better earing aids. A muscle that 'perks' the ear could hold clues to make better ...

Vestigial human ear muscles react to sounds even if the external ear does not move. This could be used to build better earing aids. A muscle that 'perks' the ear could hold clues to make better ...