Excitingly, the findings also shed light on a vestigial part of our body—and a once-useful ability lost to evolution. “There are three large muscles which connect the auricle to the skull and ...

Recently, electromyographic (EMG) signals of auricular muscles have been shown to be an indicator of spatial auditory attention in humans, based on a vestigial pinna-orienting system. Because spatial ...

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Summary: Humans have vestigial ear muscles that once helped our ancestors focus on sounds. New research shows these muscles still activate when we strain to hear in noisy environments. Scientists used ...

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Our auricular muscles are vestigial, remaining part of our bodies while losing their function – moving the pinna, the outer ear – as evolution took its course. “The exact reason these became ...

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More information: Electromyographic Correlates of Effortful Listening in the Vestigial Auriculomotor System, Frontiers in Neuroscience (2025). DOI: 10.3389/fnins.2024.1462507 Journal information ...

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