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Your eardrums move in sync with your eyes but we don’t know why
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21 July 2017
Your eardrums move in sync with your eyes but we don’t know why
 

By Aylin Woodward

See, hear. Our eardrums appear to move to shift our hearing in the same direction as our eyes are looking. Why this happens is unclear, but it may help us work out which objects we see are responsible for the sounds we can hear.

Jennifer Groh at Duke University in Durham, North Carolina, and her team have been using microphones inserted into people’s ears to study how their eardrums change during saccades – the movement that occurs when we shift visual focus from one place to another. You won’t notice it, but our eyes go through several saccades a second to take in our surroundings.

https://www.newscientist.com/article/2141467-your-eardrums-move-in-sync-with-your-eyes-but-we-dont-know-why/
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Re: Your eardrums move in sync with your eyes but we don’t know why
« Reply #1 on: July 25, 2017, 05:44:55 pm »
Makes sense. 
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Re: Your eardrums move in sync with your eyes but we don’t know why
« Reply #2 on: July 25, 2017, 05:53:42 pm »
How many times have people told me "I can't hear a thing if I don't have my glasses on."
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Re: Your eardrums move in sync with your eyes but we don’t know why
« Reply #3 on: July 25, 2017, 06:19:19 pm »
Quote from: Smokin Joe on July 25, 2017, 05:53:42 pm
How many times have people told me "I can't hear a thing if I don't have my glasses on."

Exactly!  I used to wear contacts and I could tell the difference much more without them than without my glasses.  It was quite common for me to say, "I can't here you without my contacts."
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Re: Your eardrums move in sync with your eyes but we don’t know why
« Reply #4 on: July 25, 2017, 08:11:12 pm »
Quote from: Smokin Joe on July 25, 2017, 05:53:42 pm
How many times have people told me "I can't hear a thing if I don't have my glasses on."

Yet they'll turn down the radio to look for a street address.
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