Sentences with phrase «blind echolocation»

To ensure that the acoustics of the simulated room were realistic, the researchers asked two blind echolocation experts to navigate it first; both were quickly able to orient their bodies toward the center of the aisle.

Research done by Dr. Mel Goodale, from the University of Western Ontario, in Canada, and colleagues around the world, is showing that echolocation in blind individuals is a full form of sensory substitution, and that blind echolocation experts recruit regions of the brain normally associated with visual perception when making echo - based assessments of objects.

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Recent research has confirmed that in blind subjects who use echolocation to navigate, it is the visual part of the brain that processes the auditory echoes.

Research into echolocation can inform Orientation and Mobility training, which helps people who are blind or visually impaired to navigate their environment.

Elizabeth Preston wrote about a blind 13 - year - old boy who has learned to use echolocation, a way of seeing with sound, more commonly associated with animals such as bats and dolphins.

People who become blind early in life often learn to use their hearing, including echolocation, more efficiently.

This illusion, thought to be based on the lifter's cognitive expectations, and the fact that it is also present in blind echolocators, but not in blind non-echolocators, shows that echolocation is an effective form of sensory substitution for vision.

The research, performed by Lore Thaler of Durham University, U.K., Galen Reich and Michael Antoniou of Birmingham University, U.K., and colleagues, focuses on three blind adults who have been expertly trained in echolocation.

Blind is a narrative - driven psychological thriller for virtual reality where the player is blind and must explore their surroundings using echolocaBlind is a narrative - driven psychological thriller for virtual reality where the player is blind and must explore their surroundings using echolocablind and must explore their surroundings using echolocation.

Despite being blind, she's determined to investigate what exactly has been haunting her, and uses her echolocation ability to help traverse the darkened land before her, and uncover secrets of the large mansion.

«You play as a blind thief named «Claire,» who uses an echolocation program to provide hearing to navigate through the levels in order to steal objects.