[Cyborg] echolocation in blind study

Eric Boyd mrericboyd at yahoo.com
Tue May 31 20:02:09 UTC 2011


http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-13539921

The study shows (using fMRI) that echolocation in blind people (they 
make clicking noises and listen to the echos, similar to a bat) actually 
uses some of the visual circuitry of the brain.  Awesome brain 
plasticity study, be sure to click through to the PLoS ONE paper.

Eric




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