Can you see what I hear? Blind human echolocators use visual areas of the brain
Monday, May 25, 2015 - 09:00
in Health & Medicine
Certain blind individuals have the ability to use echoes from tongue or finger clicks to recognize objects in the distance, and use echolocation as a replacement for vision. Research shows echolocation in blind individuals is a full form of sensory substitution, and that blind echolocation experts recruit regions of the brain normally associated with visual perception when making echo-based assessments of objects.