Echolocation acts as substitute sense for blind people
Tuesday, December 23, 2014 - 18:00
in Mathematics & Economics
Human echolocation operates as a viable 'sense,' working in tandem with other senses to deliver information to people with visual impairment, according to new research. Ironically, the proof for the vision-like qualities of echolocation came from blind echolocators wrongly judging how heavy objects of different sizes felt.