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Bats Avoid Mid-Air Crashes by Adjusting Their Echolocation During Flight
A recent study conducted in Israel’s Hula Valley reveals how bats manage to avoid collisions while exiting caves in large groups. Despite the expected interference from their echolocation calls, which could lead to crashes, bats have adapted by making behavioural changes. They fan out in flight, switching to higher-frequency calls that are shorte...
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Bats Growl At Each Others Like Death Metal Singers, Says Study
The findings emerged by scientists who were studying how bats produce high frequency sounds for echolocation.
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Human Echolocators Can Identify Targets Better From Off-Axis Than From Straight Ahead
A new research has found that echolocation services work drastically better when a target is detected from sideways than when the echoes are coming from straight ahead. The researchers have noticed that human echolocators are better at localising a target from 45° off to the side as compared to identifying a target from straight ahead at 0°.
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Can Humans Ever Understand What Sperm Whales say? This Research Has Roadmap Towards It
Scientists have outlined key elements needed for the processing of massive bio-acoustic data of sperm whales. Researchers say that the past decade witnessed a ground-breaking rise of machine learning for human language analysis, and recent research has shown the promise that such tools may also be used for analysing acoustic communication in nonhum...
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Humans Can Learn Echolocation in 10 Weeks, New Study Shows
New research shows that anyone can learn to use their hearing to understand the layout of objects around them though younger people seem to have a slight advantage. Participants in the study with vision loss also said it had a positive effect on their mobility, independence, and wellbeing.
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Researchers Explore New Insights Into Abilities Of Visually Impaired
New York: Researchers are exploring insights into the ability of visually impaired people to use echoes from a cane or other sounds to navigate safely — known as echolocation — to help people who lose eyesight later in life. People who become visually impaired early in life often learn to use echolocation more efficiently. But for individuals ...
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Some Visually Challenged People Use Echoes to Detect Properties of Objects: Study
Called expert echolocators, these people have material-related signals activate a region of the brain called the parahippocampal cortex (PHC).
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Acoustic Warfare: Bats Jam Each Other's Sonar While Bug Hunting
All's fair in love and war - and also in mid-air bug hunting, if you're a bat.
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Vikram's Thaandavam role inspired by real life character
Actor Vikram's role in upcoming Tamil action film Thaandavam is inspired from Daniel Kish, a blind American expert in human echolocation.
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Bats Avoid Mid-Air Crashes by Adjusting Their Echolocation During Flight
A recent study conducted in Israel’s Hula Valley reveals how bats manage to avoid collisions while exiting caves in large groups. Despite the expected interference from their echolocation calls, which could lead to crashes, bats have adapted by making behavioural changes. They fan out in flight, switching to higher-frequency calls that are shorte...
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Bats Growl At Each Others Like Death Metal Singers, Says Study
The findings emerged by scientists who were studying how bats produce high frequency sounds for echolocation.
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Human Echolocators Can Identify Targets Better From Off-Axis Than From Straight Ahead
A new research has found that echolocation services work drastically better when a target is detected from sideways than when the echoes are coming from straight ahead. The researchers have noticed that human echolocators are better at localising a target from 45° off to the side as compared to identifying a target from straight ahead at 0°.
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Can Humans Ever Understand What Sperm Whales say? This Research Has Roadmap Towards It
Scientists have outlined key elements needed for the processing of massive bio-acoustic data of sperm whales. Researchers say that the past decade witnessed a ground-breaking rise of machine learning for human language analysis, and recent research has shown the promise that such tools may also be used for analysing acoustic communication in nonhum...
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Humans Can Learn Echolocation in 10 Weeks, New Study Shows
New research shows that anyone can learn to use their hearing to understand the layout of objects around them though younger people seem to have a slight advantage. Participants in the study with vision loss also said it had a positive effect on their mobility, independence, and wellbeing.
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Researchers Explore New Insights Into Abilities Of Visually Impaired
New York: Researchers are exploring insights into the ability of visually impaired people to use echoes from a cane or other sounds to navigate safely — known as echolocation — to help people who lose eyesight later in life. People who become visually impaired early in life often learn to use echolocation more efficiently. But for individuals ...
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Some Visually Challenged People Use Echoes to Detect Properties of Objects: Study
Called expert echolocators, these people have material-related signals activate a region of the brain called the parahippocampal cortex (PHC).
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Acoustic Warfare: Bats Jam Each Other's Sonar While Bug Hunting
All's fair in love and war - and also in mid-air bug hunting, if you're a bat.
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Vikram's Thaandavam role inspired by real life character
Actor Vikram's role in upcoming Tamil action film Thaandavam is inspired from Daniel Kish, a blind American expert in human echolocation.
