Scientists discover that your ears speak to your eyes and vice versa

In 2018, Duke University researchers discovered that when the eyes move, the ears generate a tiny almost imperceptible murmur and the other way around. Now, following up on their first study, the scientists investigated if the faint audio impulses generated by the body parts contained comprehensive information about eye movements. 

Estimating the eye position from ear sounds

“You can actually estimate the movement of the eyes, the position of the target that the eyes are going to look at, just from recordings made with a microphone in the ear canal,” said Jennifer Groh, Ph.D., senior…