As it turns out, moving your eyes causes your eardrums to move too, according to a new study by Duke University neuroscientists.
“The eardrum movements literally contain information about what the eyes are doing,” Groh said. “This demonstrates that these two sensory pathways are coupled, and they are coupled at the earliest points.”
Source: pnas
Via: NeuroscienceNews
(Image is credited to Jessi Cruger and David Murphy, Duke University)