Blind people also often use short and quick cane taps to echolocate. Studies show that echolocation in humans can be so precise that they can distinguish textures such as metal through sound.

New research shows that blind and visually impaired people have the potential to use echolocation, similar to that used by bats and dolphins, to determine the location of an object. The study ...

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Echolocation has allowed Kish to pursue outdoor hobbies such as hiking, despite being totally blind. Kish also says echolocation allows him to engage aesthetically with the world.

The National Federation of the Blind is neutral on Kish’s work. “All blind people use echolocation to an extent,” said Chris Danielson, a spokesman for the federation.

The study, led by Durham University, is the first of its kind to use MRI scans to analyze the brain activity of sighted and blind people before and after they are trained in echolocation ...

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.

Daniel works with other blind people, like Nathan, to give them tools through which they can better perceive the world—and live freely within it. This, Daniel says, is a pillar of his teachings.

We typically imagine echolocation as “seeing” with sound—experiencing auditory signals as a world of images like the ones our ...

Most of us associate echolocation with bats. ... I remember reading an article in the 80’s about a blind man that used echolocation. He said he hardly used his cane.

What animals use echolocation? Of the echolocating critters, bats and toothed whales like dolphins are the all-stars. Dolphins are able to detect objects more than 300 feet away, and can even tell ...