A New Kind of Hearing Test Looks at the Eyes

A New Kind of Hearing Test Looks at the Eyes
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Our eyes involuntarily dilate in response to sound, which means they offer a potential new way to test hearing.

In 1998, University of Oregon researcher Avinash Singh Bala was working with barn owls in an Institute of Neuroscience lab when the birds’ eyes caught his attention.

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