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Ear wiggling is movement of the external ear using the three muscles which are attached to it forward, above, and behind.Some mammals such as cows have good control of these muscles, which they use to twitch and orient their ears, but humans usually find this difficult.
The tensor tympani is a muscle within the middle ear, located in the bony canal above the bony part of the auditory tube, and connects to the malleus bone. Its role is to dampen loud sounds, such as those produced from chewing, shouting, or thunder.
Researcher Vicky Williamson at Goldsmiths, University of London, found in an uncontrolled study that earworms correlated with music exposure, but could also be triggered by experiences that trigger the memory of a song (involuntary memory) such as seeing a word that reminds one of the song, hearing a few notes from the song, or feeling an emotion one associates with the song.
Don't worry, earworms aren't the newest creepy bug out there -- though they are incredibly annoying. You know when you get a little piece of a song stuck in your head that you just can't shake?
Many people experience crackling in the ear, which is often describe as a “Rice Krispies-like” sound in the ear due to its similarity to the sound the cereal makes. Keep reading for common ...
The acoustic reflex (also known as the stapedius reflex, [1] stapedial reflex, [2] auditory reflex, [3] middle-ear-muscle reflex (MEM reflex, MEMR), [4] attenuation reflex, [5] cochleostapedial reflex [6] or intra-aural reflex [6]) is an involuntary muscle contraction that occurs in the middle ear in response to loud sound stimuli or when the person starts to vocalize.
Sad fact: Unfortunately, wiggling your own ears doesn't offer the same auditory upgrade. Dog ear canals are also longer, wider, more flexible, and more cone-shaped than those of humans.
The outer ear, external ear, or auris externa is the external part of the ear, which consists of the auricle (also pinna) and the ear canal. [1] It gathers sound energy and focuses it on the eardrum ( tympanic membrane ).