Anyone can learn #echolocation in just 10 weeks — And it remodels your brain https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/anyone-can-learn-echolocation-in-just-10-weeks-and-it-remodels-your-brain/ Now imagine what encoding a truly visual live camera view into sound may do to your brain, letting you hear zebra crossings and all things visual... #neuroscience
"Human echolocation repurposes parts of the brain's visual cortex for sound, even in sighted people."
(YouTube) Alvaro Pascual-Leone: "Instead of thinking of the brain as a large part of it devoted to sight and a large part of it devoted to hearing and so forth to think of the brain as organized in... in areas that do a certain computation" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-EVfaaX1AbM&t=1786s #neuroscience
Keep in mind that echolocation, albeit of great value, leaves you blind to the painted stripes of a zebra crossing or to visual information in general https://youtube.com/watch?v=7jFJ_IXzwKI
