Echolocation is the process of detecting the location of objects by sensing echoes from those objects. A variety of animals echolocate, including bats, whales, dolphins, shrews and even flying squirrels. An interesting, albeit brief, discussion of echolocation in my systems neuroscience class got me scouring the internet for articles on human echolocation. I came across these two articles from a fellow blogger, check them out below. Plus, this will be a welcome change from my more (for lack of a better word) elaborate posts.
A story about a boy who has learned to echolocate so well, he plays basketball, skateboards among other things:
http://scienceblogs.com/neurophilosophy/2007/10/seeing_with_sound_the_boy_who.php
What brain areas are involved in echolocation?:
http://scienceblogs.com/neurophilosophy/2010/06/neural_basis_of_spatial_navigation_in_the_congenitally_blind.php
A story about a boy who has learned to echolocate so well, he plays basketball, skateboards among other things:
http://scienceblogs.com/neurophilosophy/2007/10/seeing_with_sound_the_boy_who.php
What brain areas are involved in echolocation?:
http://scienceblogs.com/neurophilosophy/2010/06/neural_basis_of_spatial_navigation_in_the_congenitally_blind.php
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