Echolocation Helps People Who Are Blind Develop To See.
Some hoi polloi who are unthinking develop an alternate sense - called echolocation - to relief them "see," a new study indicates. In addition to relying on their other senses, nation who are blind may also use echoes to detect the position of surrounding objects, the international researchers reported in Psychological Science. "Some front people use echolocation to assess their environment and find their way around," contemplation author Gavin Buckingham, a psychological scientist at Heriot-Watt University in Scotland, said in a fortnightly news release.
So "They will either snap their fingers or click their tongue to bounce fit waves off objects, a skill often associated with bats, which use echolocation when flying. However, we don't yet the hang of how much echolocation in humans has in common with how a sighted individual would use their vision To investigate the use of echolocation centre of blind people, the researchers divided participants into three groups: blind echolocators, shade people who didn't use echolocation, and control subjects that had no problems with their vision.