If you do this yourself, you’ll notice that the tone sounds louder when you’re cupping your ears—and that’s exactly what the function of the pinna is. It collects all those sounds and ...

The ear is an advanced and very sensitive organ of the human body. The major task of the ear is to detect and analyse noises by transduction. Another very important ...

By flipping an evolutionarily disabled genetic switch involved in Vitamin A metabolism, researchers have enabled ear tissue ...

The function of the outer ear, or pinna, is to amplify and channel sound into the ear canal. Bigger ears will do this slightly more, but since the pinna amplifies sounds by only about 15 decibels ...

Pinna filter functions were measured by recording the sound pressure level in the ear canal, at a location 1–2 mm from the eardrum, with a thin silicone tube attached to a miniature microphone ...