In the article, Depth Echolocation Learnt by Novice Sighted people the authors did a study to see if you could teach non-blind people to echolocate. They had 18 participants, 9 males 9 females. After conducting a few tests to make sure none of the participants had hearing impairments, some of the participants were put in the anechoic room, and half in the reverberant room which had parquet, polyester carpet on the floor. They believed that non-blind people would echolocate better in the reverberant room than anechoic. Once divided they were told that they can either snap their fingers or click their tongues. They ran a practice session without a blindfold then 3 sessions with blindfolds on, they ran 60 trials total. What they found is that
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I guess I only thought of it in context to bats. I would have never had considered that blind people could echolocate. This article opened my eyes to the idea that not only that blind people could use this unique talent, but also people who can see can also learn to use it. I feel like it’s like sign language deaf people have another way to communicate with the world and blind people have echolocation to communicate in a way with the world around them. I feel like echolocation is like when you are in a dark room and you are trying to find the door knob there are certain things that help you find it like touch and hearing to unlock it. I think that this study opens the door to the likely hood that people will learn a task to help them before they go …show more content…
They tested for hearing, but they didn’t test for vison problems. I think it would be interesting to take the people that have done the trial for a walk around outside and try to see if they can echolocate. It’s different for blind people they must learn this skill so they can get around in their daily lives. The study just had people in a chair practicing and measuring the depth and distance of objects. I think the only question I have would be how can this be applied to daily lives? Can all bind people echolocate or is it a task they have to learn as
I guess I only thought of it in context to bats. I would have never had considered that blind people could echolocate. This article opened my eyes to the idea that not only that blind people could use this unique talent, but also people who can see can also learn to use it. I feel like it’s like sign language deaf people have another way to communicate with the world and blind people have echolocation to communicate in a way with the world around them. I feel like echolocation is like when you are in a dark room and you are trying to find the door knob there are certain things that help you find it like touch and hearing to unlock it. I think that this study opens the door to the likely hood that people will learn a task to help them before they go …show more content…
They tested for hearing, but they didn’t test for vison problems. I think it would be interesting to take the people that have done the trial for a walk around outside and try to see if they can echolocate. It’s different for blind people they must learn this skill so they can get around in their daily lives. The study just had people in a chair practicing and measuring the depth and distance of objects. I think the only question I have would be how can this be applied to daily lives? Can all bind people echolocate or is it a task they have to learn as