14 DAY TRIAL // Scientists have long been aware of the fact that some blind people use echolocation to navigate their surroundings.
However, it took them quite a while to figure out that sighted people could do the same, provided that they were patient enough to learn this skill.
Researchers explain that, most of the time, the human brain blocks out and ignores whatever echoes come its way.
This is intended to help make the original sound clearer, and therefore easier to comprehend.
By the looks of it, sighted people could train their brains into not dismissing echoes as unwanted information, and process them just as it does original sounds, Live Science reports.
Otherwise put, they could use lagging sounds as a means to “see.”
Specialists say that, all things considered, blind people would still be better than sighted ones at echolocation.
This is because their brain no longer processes visual information and can therefore allocate more resources to making head and tail of different sounds.