How blind people map their surroundings using sound

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Some blind people use returning echoes from their own mouth clicks to perceive external surroundings, or echolocation. New from eNeuro, Haydee Garcia Lazaro and Santani Teng, from Smith-Kettlewell Eye Research Institute, explored how the human brain creates representations of external surroundings using echolocation.

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