Bats and dolphins are known for their ability to use echolocation. They emit bursts of sounds
and listen to the echoes that bounce back to detect the objects in their environment. What is …

Echolocation is the ability to use sound-echoes to infer spatial information about the
environment. Some blind people have developed extraordinary proficiency in echolocation …

People use sensory, in particular visual, information to guide actions such as walking
around obstacles, grasping or reaching. However, it is presently unclear how malleable the …

Improving the quality of life for people with vision impairments has been an important goal in
the research and design of assistive devices for several decades. This paper seeks to further …

Some blind humans have developed echolocation, as a method of navigation in space.
Echolocation is a truly active sense because subjects analyze echoes of dedicated, self …

Active echolocation of sighted humans using predefined synthetic and self-emitted sounds,
as habitually used by blind individuals, was investigated. Using virtual acoustics, distance …

Ambient sound can mask acoustic signals. The current study addressed how echolocation in
people is affected by masking sound, and the role played by type of sound and spatial (ie …

In this work, we study people's ability to discriminate between different 2D textures of walls
by passive listening to a pre-recorded tongue click in an auralized echolocation scenario. In …

Humans can learn to use acoustic echoes to detect and classify objects. Echolocators
typically use tongue clicks to induce these echoes, and there is some evidence that higher …

Echolocation can be beneficial for the orientation and mobility of visually impaired people.
Research has shown considerable individual differences for acquiring this skill. However …