A new experiment has proven that echolocation is a viable skill for blind and sighted people and that we can learn echolocation quickly, too.
When you think of echolocation, you probably think of bats or dolphins. But echolocation has also been used as a way for blind people to navigate, too. Despite the skill’s usefulness, few blind people have actually learned how to use echolocation. Now, though, researchers say humans can learn echolocation in as little as 10 weeks. Which could make it a viable skill for people with vision impairments.
Each training session was around two to three hours long, the researchers say. As a result of the teaching, the researchers say all of the blind and sighted participants learned echolocation and improved considerably at click-based echolocation. Further, the researchers found that the participants of the group had performed equally with people who have been using echolocation for years. As such, it appears humans can pick up on the skill effectively, even over a short amount of time.What makes learning echolocation so enticing though? Well, for starters, we’ve already seen how effective it can be in the animal world. Bats, dolphins, whales, and some other creatures likerely on echolocation to navigate the world in different ways.
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