The head tilt exercise is simple: relax your shoulders and gently tilt your head from side to side, bringing your ear closer ...

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 ...

But what makes this skill possible for some and impossible for others? Ear movement is controlled by the auricular muscles—three muscles that connect the outer ear (or ‘auricle’) to the ...

Earwax, medically known as cerumen, is a substance naturally produced by glands in the ear canal. It serves critical ...

When people are trying hard to listen to something, the body seems to do its best to "prick up its ears," even though this ability was lost by our evolutionary ancestors millions of years ago.

Animals such as dogs and rabbits perk up or twitch their ears in response to sound. This movement focuses sound on the animal's eardrum, which is important for accurately identifying and ...

They found that when people focus on difficult listening tasks, the auricular muscles show electrical activity, similar to ear movements in other species that indicate attentiveness. The study ...

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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, the researchers asked ...