The auricular muscles: a dormant evolutionary heritage. The auricular muscles once had an essential role: they allowed our ...

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 ...

The auricular muscles appear to activate when humans are trying to listen to competing sounds, not just when wiggling the ears. The findings are detailed in a study published January 31 in the ...

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 ...

Humans lost that ability over time, and the muscles that once controlled ear movement are now mostly useless—except for a few people who can still wiggle their ears.

The little muscles that enable people to wiggle their ears unconsciously flex when we're trying to pick one sound out of a din of noise, a new study finds. Think about how cats, dogs and certain ...

This indicates that these ear muscles may provide an objective measure of listening effort. It’s unclear, however, if the muscle activity is directly linked to the effectiveness of hearing.

Humans actually have vestigial muscles that activate when listening closely to something, even though people lost the ability to really move their ears about 25 million years ago.

Humans actually have vestigial muscles that activate when listening closely to something, even though people lost the ability to really move their ears about 25 million years ago.

Humans actually have vestigial muscles that activate when listening closely to something, even though people lost the ability to really move their ears about 25 million years ago.

Humans actually have vestigial muscles that activate when listening closely to something, even though people lost the ability to really move their ears about 25 million years ago.