Bats are associated with the phrase, “Guardians of the Night” yet have horrible eyesight in the evening. To navigate after dark, bats use echolocation. Echolocation is the act of using the reverberation of a sound transmitted out of the body to detect objects in the surrounding area. Scientist for many years believed animals only had this ability. Due to human brains tending to suppress the frequency of echoes. This capability to retrieve the echo of a sound one transmitted has been perceived to be so farfetched that we have given this ability to a superhero. However, what scientists were not aware of was the fact that in Montebello, California America had it's very own "superhero."
Our modern superhero goes by the name Daniel Kish. Daniel …show more content…
During the research, scientists discovered that all of the blind men's clicks were averaging three milliseconds which is faster than they expected. While the human brain retrieves words and sends the message to the mouth in 600 milliseconds, it is quite evident the direction of clicks exceeds speech substantially (Thaler). Thaler goes on to say that echolocation is more directional than speech giving the individual more focus. The scientists acknowledge three milliseconds is not an implied duration humans can echolocate, rather a basis for the minimum duration we manage due to our vocal structure. After explaining just a small portion of the study, the article then goes into quotes of other scientists applauding Thaler and her colleagues for the information obtained from this study. Juan Antonio Martínez Rojas a researcher from the University of Alcalá in Spain says, ”Unfortunately, three subjects is a very small sample and conclusions cannot be generalized. However, this is not a criticism of this excellent paper, because longtime expert echolocation users are only a few in the world." (Rojas) A repetitive truth reared its head throughout the article; scientists cannot apprehend all the answers. I find this amusing how the scientists and even the article applaud them for conducting a study and coming up with numbers but no answers. Thaler even states, "We know that human echolocation can determine the shape of an object using clicks, what we don't know is how."
Our modern superhero goes by the name Daniel Kish. Daniel …show more content…
During the research, scientists discovered that all of the blind men's clicks were averaging three milliseconds which is faster than they expected. While the human brain retrieves words and sends the message to the mouth in 600 milliseconds, it is quite evident the direction of clicks exceeds speech substantially (Thaler). Thaler goes on to say that echolocation is more directional than speech giving the individual more focus. The scientists acknowledge three milliseconds is not an implied duration humans can echolocate, rather a basis for the minimum duration we manage due to our vocal structure. After explaining just a small portion of the study, the article then goes into quotes of other scientists applauding Thaler and her colleagues for the information obtained from this study. Juan Antonio Martínez Rojas a researcher from the University of Alcalá in Spain says, ”Unfortunately, three subjects is a very small sample and conclusions cannot be generalized. However, this is not a criticism of this excellent paper, because longtime expert echolocation users are only a few in the world." (Rojas) A repetitive truth reared its head throughout the article; scientists cannot apprehend all the answers. I find this amusing how the scientists and even the article applaud them for conducting a study and coming up with numbers but no answers. Thaler even states, "We know that human echolocation can determine the shape of an object using clicks, what we don't know is how."