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Anyone Can Learn Echolocation in Just 10 Weeks—And It Remodels Your Brain (www.scientificamerican.com)

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Act now and you too can see as well as a bat!

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[–] [email protected] 60 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Well, they started by teaching participants to produce mouth clicks. Then they did exercises judging the size or orientation of objects, and they also had them move around with the help of simulated click-plus-echo sounds tied to their positions.

[–] [email protected] 28 points 1 month ago (3 children)

i've located the echo!

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

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[–] funkless_eck 26 points 1 month ago (1 children)

but why male models?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago

What. Are you serious? I just told you.