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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Ear muscle we thought humans didn’t use — except for wiggling our ears — actually activates when people listen hard The auricular muscles, which helped our distant ancestors move their ears ...

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 ...