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Anyone Can Learn Echolocation in Just 10 Weeks—And It Remodels Your Brain (www.scientificamerican.com)
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[–] TachyonTele@lemm.ee 60 points 2 months 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.

[–] ohwhatfollyisman@lemmy.world 28 points 2 months ago (3 children)

i've located the echo!

[–] TachyonTele@lemm.ee 3 points 2 months ago

ello!
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[–] funkless_eck@sh.itjust.works 26 points 2 months ago (1 children)

but why male models?

[–] TachyonTele@lemm.ee 7 points 2 months ago

What. Are you serious? I just told you.