2011-06-20 19:01:19.254352+02 by Dan Lyke 0 comments
Conclusions
These findings suggest that processing of click-echoes recruits brain regions typically devoted to vision rather than audition in both early and late blind echolocation experts.
PLoS ONE blog entry about humans using echolocation and how our thinking about brain function and processing in terms of regional physiology is evolving from being sense based to being more conceptually based.
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