Like some bats and marine mammals, people can develop expert echolocation skills, in which they produce a clicking sound with their mouths and listen to the reflected sound waves to 'see' their ...

Bats and dolphins aren’t the only animals that can use echolocation to detect objects in their environments. Humans can use echolocation too, and it’s a game-changer for people who are blind. On ...

A new study has looked into the strange phenomenon of human echolocation, where people are able to “see” their surroundings by clicking their mouths. The rest of this article is behind a paywall.

When a bat flies through a forest in the dark, it emits high-pitched sounds and hears their echoes bouncing off different objects. This echolocation lets it avoid trees or catch prey without using ...

Echolocation is not just a tool used by mammals like bats, whales, and dolphins: it’s actually used by humans too. At Acoustics ‘17, the third joint meeting of the Acoustical Society of America and ...

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People who are visually impaired will often use a cane to feel out their surroundings. With training and practice, people can learn to use the pitch, loudness and timbre of echoes from the cane or ...

Human hearing is pretty dismal compared to animals like bats and dolphins that use sound to navigate, but blind people have been reported to be able to learn to use echolocation to sense their ...

Dolphins, pigeons, and locusts, oh my! Rather than retaining the negative connotation from Dorothy's original fear-of-animals version of that phrase in the "Wizard of Oz," a trio of new studies by ...

A pod of bottlenose dolphins (Tursiops truncatus) swimming at the Las Cuevitas dive site in the Revillagigedo Archipelago. We typically imagine echolocation as “seeing” with sound—experiencing ...

Humans, when you train them, can be phenomenally good at pattern recognition. Our long history as the descendants of organisms who could spot a predator in dappled grass probably has something to do ...

Like some bats and marine mammals, people can develop expert echolocation skills, in which they produce a clicking sound with their mouths and listen to the reflected sound waves to "see" their ...