Discover why vision provides 80% of balance information and how eye exercises can solve stability issues better than balance ...

In the clamor of a crowded café or the din of a busy street, your brain performs a quiet miracle—tuning into one voice while ...

While humans can't turn their ears like some animals, our ear muscles still try to make tiny, unconscious movements when we're listening to something intently. In the study, ...

Together, these movements create what we recognize as ear wiggling. While everyone has auricular muscles, only a small number of people can consciously flex these muscles to wiggle their ears. But ...

Letter: 'Useless' ear muscle gives me a sixth sense. Published 26 February 2025. From Gerald Legg, Hurstpierpoint, West Sussex, UK . I can slightly move the “useless” muscle that lets some ...

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 ...

The auricular muscles once had an essential role: they allowed our ancestors to pivot their ears to more effectively locate surrounding sounds, whether it was an approaching predator or a source of ...

Although modern humans cannot move their ears around in the same way that dogs, cats, and horses do, the findings suggest that humans involuntarily tense their ear muscles when listening intently.

“In this experiment, we recorded from two different ear muscles,” says Hackley. “One that raises the ears up, and one that pulls the ear back.” Twenty volunteers got wired up with electrodes around ...

Human ear muscles that ­scientists long believed were vestigial – or without function – are actually activated when we are trying to listen hard, a new study has found.

Wiggling your ears is a fun party trick, but it turns out we do it ever so slightly when we're trying to hear better too. Scientists previously thought the muscle used to wiggle your ears was ...