- Some blind people have developed extraordinary proficiency in echolocation using mouth-clicks, similar to bats. These mouth-clicks used by blind expert human echolocators were analyzed by scientists in the first ever description of the beam pattern of these transmission to navigate around objects. http://journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol/article?id=10.1371/journal.pcbi.1005670 963 comments science
Linking pages
- Teach Yourself to Echolocate - Atlas Obscura https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/how-to-echolocate 105 comments
- How Does Human Echolocation Work? | Innovation| Smithsonian Magazine https://www.smithsonianmag.com/innovation/how-does-human-echolocation-work-180965063/ 54 comments
- How Does Human Echolocation Work? | Innovation| Smithsonian Magazine https://www.smithsonianmag.com/innovation/how-does-human-echolocation-work-180965063/?no-ist= 0 comments
- What It Takes to Be an Expert Human Echolocator | WIRED https://www.wired.com/2017/08/takes-expert-human-echolocator 0 comments