Echolocation acts as substitute sense for blind people

23 diciembre 2014

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.
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