If you want to sing to your sweetheart, make sure you aim into their left ear.
According to the Associated Foreign Press, our right and left ears process sounds differently.
Scientists at UCLA studied the hearing of over 3,000 newborns and found that the right ear was better at picking up speech, while the left was more attuned to music.
Lead researcher Yvonne Sininger says it's always been assumed that our left and right ears work the same way. So if a person was slightly hearing impaired, it didn't make a difference which ear was damaged. But now, experts think partial hearing loss may have a profound effect on the person's speech and language development.
It seems that our ears are made to distinguish different kinds of sound and send them to the right place in the brain.
The researchers say this discovery will help hearing-impaired people develop better language skills, because doctors will now be able to pinpoint where the communication barrier has broken down.
Scientists at UCLA studied the hearing of over 3,000 newborns and found that the right ear was better at picking up speech, while the left was more attuned to music.
Lead researcher Yvonne Sininger says it's always been assumed that our left and right ears work the same way. So if a person was slightly hearing impaired, it didn't make a difference which ear was damaged. But now, experts think partial hearing loss may have a profound effect on the person's speech and language development.
It seems that our ears are made to distinguish different kinds of sound and send them to the right place in the brain.
The researchers say this discovery will help hearing-impaired people develop better language skills, because doctors will now be able to pinpoint where the communication barrier has broken down.
