“These muscles, particularly the superior auricular muscle, exhibit increased activity during effortful listening tasks. This suggests that these muscles are engaged not merely as a reflex but ...

When we strain to catch what someone is saying in a noisy room, for example, small muscles in our outer ears, called the superior auricular muscles, kick into action, likely in an attempt to ...

The study found that the more difficult the listening task, the more active the superior auricular muscles became. "These ...

"These muscles, particularly the superior auricular muscle, exhibit increased activity during effortful listening tasks. This suggests that these muscles are engaged not merely as a reflex but ...

“These muscles, particularly the superior auricular muscle, exhibit increased activity during effortful listening tasks. This suggests that these muscles are engaged not merely as a reflex but ...

All the while, electrodes around the ears recorded muscle activity. An ear muscle called the superior auricular muscle, which sits just above the ear and lifts it up, fired up when the listening ...

“These muscles, particularly the superior auricular muscle, exhibit increased activity during effortful listening tasks.” In modern humans, auricular muscles aren’t all that useful. We use them to ...

The scientists found that, the more difficult it was for participants to hear the audiobook, the more the superior auricular muscles activated, as if participants were trying to prick up their ears ...

“These muscles, particularly the superior auricular muscle, exhibit increased activity during effortful listening tasks.” Man trying to listen closely (Brian A Jackson) The study, published in ...

The team set up an experiment using electrodes on the skin to determine how the superior and posterior auricular muscles reacted to listening tasks of varying direction and difficulty, writing in ...