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When Hearing Is Seeing

  • November 3, 2012
  • By KIDS DISCOVER

Dolphins and bats do it, but humans can also echolocate, or navigate using echoes from repeated sounds. Studies of blind people with this ability show that sounds affect their brains’ visual cortex, which controls sight, rather than the auditory cortex, which controls hearing.

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