You won’t notice it, but when you listen hard enough, your ears — or at least the muscles around them — spring into action. Though (most) humans lost the ability to wiggle their ears millions of years ...

An ear wiggler himself, Schröer has collected stories of remarkable ear abilities, such as people who feel their ears moving toward a sound and people who use their ear movements in daily life. “They ...

Some people can still wiggle their ears voluntarily ... which is a thing that you decide to bring to a situation," he suggested. "Arousal," in this context, refers to a state of heightened ...

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 ...

They are still used by roughly 10 to 20 percent of people with the fun ability to wiggle their ears. However ... electrical activity in a muscle and can help scientists pinpoint activity in ...

A “useless” muscle that allows some people to wiggle their ears actually activates ... facial expressions, which can affect the activity of auricular muscles, he says. Strauss hopes to address ...