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humans and echolocation

2011-06-20 19:01:19.254352+02 by Dan Lyke 0 comments

PLoS ONE: Neural Correlates of Natural Human Echolocation in Early and Late Blind Echolocation Experts

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.

A Discover Magazine article about the brain on sonar.

The MeFi entry I stole these links from.

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