Like Kish, a handful of blind echolocators worldwide have taught themselves to use clicks and echoes to navigate their surroundings with impressive ease — Kish can even ride his bike down the street, as his daring YouTube videos show. (sciencemag.org)
Blind human echolocators use visual areas of the brain.» (sciencedaily.com)
Interestingly, other studies in the Goodale lab have shown that blind expert echolocators are also subject to illusions, for example the size - weight illusion in which the perception of mass is influenced by the size of an object. (sciencedaily.com)