According to a paper by University of British Columbia researchers reported that even the hair follicles and the skin can hear just the way our ears do.

The report was published in Nature journal this Thursday.

According to the paper by Bryan Gick, an associate professor at UBC, and Donald Derrick, a graduate student, when you hold your hand in front of your mouth and say ‘ba’ and then ‘pa’ a puff of air is also released. Therefore people listening will hear ‘pa’ not just with their ears but also by their skin since it can feel the puff of air.

Their paper also says that the skin and hair follicles of people can recognize the puff of air when a person says ‘pa’.

These air puffs were applied to the neck and the top of the head because hair follicles assist people in perceiving the puff of air.

The researchers found that when the participants of the study felt a puff of air on their skin from an air compressor, they were more likely to perceive the syllable ‘pa’ when in fact the other syllable ‘ba’ was spoken.

Gick said, "Recent research, including ours, has been leading in a different direction," he said. "We are naturally multimodal, very versatile perceivers, and we can use any part of our body to pick up information about objects and events around us in our environment."