The team of scientists from Yale University tried to understand how the inner ear could hear the quietest noises, but the researchers stumbled upon something more curious. The team came across a potentially new way with which the human body actively controls sound waves and can help outplay extremely low frequencies, writes Science Alert.

According to the co -author of the study, physicist Benjamin Makht, he and his colleagues decided to focus on understanding how the ear could tune in to the discovery of weak sounds, without becoming unstable and reacting even in the absence of external sounds. But in the end, scientists stumbled upon a completely new set of low -frequency mechanical regimes, which scientists believe, supports the ear snail. The results of the study were published in the PrX Life.

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In their work, scientists used the mathematical modeling of the auditory body of perception, similar to a snail known as a ear snail. The authors of the study note that their find opens up a new level of complexity of how human hearing actively controls the sound waves to detect meaning in noise.

To become the sounds that a person is able to hear, vibrations pushing and pulling partially specific sections of tiny hairs in the ear membrane, forcing the nervous signals transmitted to the brain.

These vibrations can be easily exhaled when ripples move on the surface of the membrane, muffling tones and reducing the volume. Previously, scientists have already found out that individual sectors can increase surface fluctuations with an accurate, timely " This helps us to hear tones, to the discovery of which these areas are most sensitive.

Now scientists have found that the ear seems to have a similar reflex that widely adjusts surface waves regardless of their tone, finding a balance that eliminates an unwanted noise without creating phantom sounds.

Hypersensitive hairs that lift the basic membrane in the ear snail can work both localized and more expanded, collectively. Models suggest that supersensitive hairs are adapted as necessary to control sound waves, since they are converted into electrical signals.

The authors of the study note that the key to new results is the discovery that large parts of the basic membrane can be combined and act as a single whole for low frequency sounds. This helps the auricle better to cope with incoming vibrations and prevent the overload of the ear with high volume sounds.

According to another co-author of the study, the biophysicist-theoretic Isabella Count, the results of the new study give a much more detailed understanding of how the ear and the ear snail work, as well as how problems with hearing. Moreover, scientists believe that their discovery provides new opportunities for future research of the function of the ear.

Previously, Focus wrote that scientists have discovered a gene that helps to restore a lost hearing.

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