#echolocation — Public Fediverse posts

💁🏻‍♀️ TIL: 🦇🧠 A 2021 study found #blind and sighted people can learn click #echolocation in just 10 weeks.

Follow up scans by #Durham University researchers showed structural changes in the #brain’s visual cortex. A separate 2025 study examined how 30 million years of echolocation #evolution shaped dolphin and whale brains.

👉 https://www.sciencealert.com/humans-can-echolocate-and-it-changes-the-wiring-of-the-brain

#neuroplasticity #science #biology #humanbody #sound #adaptation #learning #neuroscience #dolphins #whales #disability #humans #animals #bats

Echolocation for Drones

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://hackaday.com/2026/07/20/echolocation-for-drones/

A blind woman reached out and touched a tree she couldn’t see. She’d ‘heard’ it standing there.

https://web.brid.gy/r/https://www.upworthy.com/pn-molly-burke-passive-echolocation-tree/

🐬🇧🇷 Biologist Vera da Silva and researchers at #Brazil’s Mamirauá Institute study the pink #boto, a #freshwater #dolphin that swims backward and upside down.

These 2.5-meter-long #mammals use #echolocation to hunt #fish among submerged tree roots. While biologically successful for millennia, they now face threats from #hunting and #pollution.

👉 https://www.discoverwildlife.com/animal-facts/marine-animals/amazon-river-dolphin

#amazon #biology #rainforest #conservation #nature #science #river #ecology #research

#Echolocation tells absolute distances whereas the #AI depth view only gives relative distances (depth order), but still with supplemental absolute depth cues from changes in apparent size when moving to and fro, as well as effects of visual parallax when moving sideways.

🌟🦇 Blind echolocators have an extraordinary superpower! They actively shape and interpret echoes to create detailed mental maps of their surroundings. Their brains turn subtle sound reflections into rich spatial awareness.
Read more: https://thedebrief.org/new-research-reveals-the-superpower-behind-how-blind-echolocators-navigate-using-sound/

@goodnews

#Echolocation #HumanAdaptation #Neuroscience #GoodNews

#mwgic #2026 #Echolocation #Training

Teach Yourself to Echolocate - Atlas Obscura https://share.google/J11f02KhjHpr0yJNL

The brain stacks sound information to navigate the dark https://neurosciencenews.com/human-echolocation-brain-mapping-30462/ Each #echolocation "click acts like a brushstroke, building a high-resolution mental representation of the surroundings in real-time."

Human #echolocation works step by step https://www.sciencenews.org/article/human-echolocation-blind-brain "A study reveals how individual tongue clicks and their echoes contribute to object sensing"

Neural and behavioral correlates of evidence accumulation in human click-based echolocation https://www.eneuro.org/content/early/2026/03/26/ENEURO.0342-25.2026

🦇 Humans show bat-like skills using mouth-click echolocation

(... and where is the bat-man?)

https://medicalxpress.com/news/2026-02-humans-skills-mouth-click-echolocation.html

#senses #echolocation #ability #research #bats

4-Feb-2026
Elusive beaked #whales off the #Louisiana coast may sometimes be diving right to the #seafloor, finds new 3D acoustic technology which accurately pinpoints their locations using their #echolocation clicks
https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1114393

#science #SoundscapeEcology #ecology #marineBiology #mammals

🦇🤖 To learn how #bats find tiny #insects on leaves in a crowded #jungle, researchers built a specialized #robot that uses #echolocation just like the real thing.

The experiments with the "robo-bat" arm showed that these #animals don't need complex maps of every leaf. Instead, they use a surprisingly simple and elegant acoustic trick to identify their next meal in total darkness.

👉 https://www.popsci.com/technology/robot-bat-hunting/

#robotics #science #biology #engineering #nature #technology #tech #innovation #discovery #research #biomimicry

#KnowledgeByte: #Echolocation is a biological sonar system used by certain animals to navigate and find prey in their environment.

Human echolocation is the ability of humans to use sound waves to perceive their surroundings.

https://knowledgezone.co.in/posts/Human-Echolocation-67322845b0ffe5bd99bd4d48

Clinical trial: Wearable #echolocation aids using parametric sound https://clinicaltrials.gov/study/NCT07218991 "The objective of this study is to study a novel device designed to aid patients with impaired vision to safely navigate their environment."

Neural and behavioral correlates of evidence accumulation in human click-based #echolocation www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... by @haydeegl.bsky.social @echodislocation.bsky.social #neuroscience

Neural and behavioral correlat...

Neural and behavioral correlates of evidence accumulation in human click-based #echolocation https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.08.30.673202v1 by @echodislocation et al. #neuroscience

Dogbane tiger moth (Cycnia tenera). Like others in the subfamily (Arctiinae), they can jam bat sonar by making high-frequency chirps. I'm not sure of specifics but apparently bats can adjust their sound production to become unjammed. And no doubt, moths have additional countermeasures to deploy. #dogbane #moth #moths #lepidoptera #evolution #insects #nature #bats #echolocation

For dolphins, #echolocation may be more like 'touching' than 'seeing' https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/for-dolphins-echolocation-may-be-more-like-touching-than-seeing/ (archived at https://archive.ph/jCFj8) Dolphins seem to "feel" their way across the sea with narrow, sweeping beams of sonar

This professor is training the public to echolocate https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/learning-human-echolocation-with-a-neuroscientist/ (archived at https://archive.ph/7EKXK) Neuroscientist Lore Thaler speaks about her efforts to make #echolocation training more accessible

Bats' echolocation strategy: How dense colonies avoid mid-air collisions
https://phys.org/news/2025-03-echolocation-strategy-dense-colonies-mid.html paper: https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2407810122

"When exiting the cave, #bats experience a cacophony of calls, with 94% of echolocations being jammed. Yet, within five seconds of leaving the cave, bats significantly reduced the #echolocation jamming... they fanned out and they emitted shorter and weaker calls at higher frequency... to gain detailed information about their near neighbors... to avoid collisions."

Certaines chauves-souris utilisent l'effet Doppler pour affiner leur perception des objets en mouvement: l'écho de leur cri leur parait plus aigu si la cible se rapproche, plus grave si la cible s'éloigne.

#lino #linocut #linoprint #bat #echolocation

Est-ce qu'un moiré sonore devient plus agréable dans les moments de phase ?

#stevereich #bat #sonar #echolocation #mandorla

Humans Can Learn Echolocation Too https://hackaday.com/2024/11/26/humans-can-learn-echolocation-too/ #echolocation #OriginalArt #Featured #Science #sonar #study #bat

Humans Can Learn Echolocation Too - Most of us associate echolocation with bats. These amazing creatures are able to c... - https://hackaday.com/2024/11/26/humans-can-learn-echolocation-too/ #echolocation #originalart #featured #science #sonar #study #bat

#Echolocation is a biological sonar system used by certain animals to navigate and find prey in their environment.

Human echolocation is the ability of humans to use sound waves to perceive their surroundings.

https://knowledgezone.co.in/posts/Human-Echolocation-67322845b0ffe5bd99bd4d48

How To Tell If You Can Be a Great #Mathematician: Medium

Anyone Can Learn #Echolocation in Just 10 Weeks—And It Remodels Your #Brain : Sci Am

How building a 'secret #Repertoire' helps you generate original #Ideas : Misc

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#KnowledgeByte: #Echolocation is a biological sonar system used by certain animals to navigate and find prey in their environment.

Human echolocation is the ability of humans to use sound waves to perceive their surroundings.

https://knowledgezone.co.in/posts/Human-Echolocation-67322845b0ffe5bd99bd4d48