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Re:Echolocation in blind people reveals the brain’s adaptive... by colshrapnel on Sunday October 06, 2019 @03:43AM (#21170454)
I remember reading an article about Ben Underwood[1]. It was headlined with something like a blind boy can play video games using an echolocation. It turned out he just remembers the right succession of moves after a lot of try and fails. On the one hand, I should blame the author, not the boy for the title. But when I tried to research the topic, all I was able to find is only a couple articles using similar gimmicks, so I became quite skeptical.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_echolocation#Ben_Underwo...

Re:Echolocation in blind people reveals the brain’s adaptive... by DubiousPusher on Sunday October 06, 2019 @03:58AM (#21170505)
Exactly. I'm wary because it would be very easy for this to be a clever Hans situation. There are many signals blind and low vision people use to help themselves that it's very hard not to conflate them.