Is it feasible that humans hear through own skin too?
We human beings are quite concerned of our skin along with its merits and demerits. Isn’t it? We do know that it is a natural protective body covering and site of the sense of touch but a recent study suggests that it does play other roles also. This may amaze you but the researchers of the study have the conviction that humans, in point of fact, may be able to hear through their own skin. There is hardly any doubt that this sounds quite uncanny for the reason that humans make use of ears or sense organ for hearing and equilibrium to hear sounds.
Nevertheless, human skin plays a crucial role as it shields human beings from danger, injury, destruction, or damage and from the outside elements, including the sun, which can really harm our skin if we do not look after it. How did the researchers proceed then? It has come to the knowledge that, for the sake of the study, researchers almost subjugated participants to puffs of wind against their skin, in unison playing syllables and asking the participants to say those again.
What was the outcome? The answers the researchers did receive, depending on the strength of wind against the skin of participants, varied to the highest degree. This does indicate that the tactile touch of wind against skin, brought about participant’s capability to hear.Commenting on the entire event study researcher Bryan Gick of the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, told LiveScience, “[That's] very different from the more traditional ideas, based on the fact that we have eyes so we think of ourselves as seeing visible information, and we have ears so we think of ourselves as hearing auditory information. That’s a little bit misleading.”
Do you find anything exceptional? It may be that you are terming the entire development as contemptible but the researchers are confident that their study discovery could one day bring about better hearing aids being developed for hard-of-hearing people.
