Sentences with phrase «echolocation research»

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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.

One way to avoid being eaten was to emit echolocation sounds that were difficult for killer whales to detect — thus an ability favored by evolution, «concludes Lee Miller and Magnus Wahlberg in their research article.

Previous research suggested that these marine mammals could dull their hearing before uttering outgoing echolocation clicks, which are very loud.

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

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.

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.

While studying for graduate school, I worked part - time as Veterinary Technician at an emergency animal clinic, plus I volunteered and started my thesis research on dolphin echolocation at the John G. Shedd Aquarium in Chicago.