Each muscle is responsible for a different movement: the anterior auricular muscle pulls the ear forward, the superior auricular muscle lifts it slightly, and the posterior auricular muscle pulls ...

Each cranial nerve has a specific function ... place the base of a struck tuning fork on the mastoid bone posterior to the ear. Ask the patient to notify you when they can no longer hear the ...

The team found that two auricular muscles reacted differently to the various conditions. The posterior auricular muscles reacted to changes in direction. By comparison, the superior auricular ...

Result: the more demanding the listening task, the more the superior and posterior auricular muscles contracted, as if they ...

Similar research has already shown that the largest muscles, posterior and superior auricular muscles, react during attentive listening. Because they pull the ears up and back, they are considered ...

They found two of the auricular muscles reacted differently to the different conditions. “The posterior auricular muscles reacted to changes in direction while the superior auricular muscles ...

The superior auricular muscles reacted more strongly to the difficulty level of the task, especially when switching from medium to hard mode. In contrast, the posterior auricular muscles primarily ...