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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] 13 points 2 weeks ago (26 children)

Yes, I read the article. How does the training work?

[–] [email protected] 59 points 2 weeks ago (6 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 2 weeks ago (3 children)

i've located the echo!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

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