Amazing! Have you seen this?

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[seraph524]

omg thats awesome!!!!!!

 

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[jlamacc1]

That's insane. The human brain knows no bounds!

 

[JustAdocInBox]

This is very cool. Although, I must admit, I am very skeptical. It just seems too unreal. I understand the pillow fight because he can hear people and pin their location. Same with the Foosball. But the echos, I just don't know. My guess is that he has a very hard time navigating new territories like this.

dendro, I highly doubt he can tell what material an object is made of. Maybe size. He can probably infer as well since it was on a certain side of the street.

 

[Kraazy]

This is very cool. Although, I must admit, I am very skeptical. It just seems too unreal.

I remember seeing this when it was on TV and although it seems pretty crazy, I'm inclined to believe it. There are people with extraordinary abilities in all sorts of ways, and every once in a while those outliers actually discover their ability and learn to develop it. (OMG, this is beginning to sound like Heroes...)
Anyway, it's not like he can use echolocation as well as a bat or something, and I would agree that he probably has a harder time in unfamiliar settings. Cool ish...

 

[Maxprime]

First off, surprised it wasn't a RickRoll. 🙂

I remember someone telling me that this is why blind people tap their canes instead of just holding them out in front of them - they listen for the sound to reflect off surfaces to know where they are in relation to walls and such. The visual cortex is a lot of area in the brain to use towards something else, I'd love to see an fMRI when he pictures things from sounding off them.

 

[JustAdocInBox]

I'd love to see an fMRI when he pictures things from sounding off them.

Haha, I was waiting for someone to propose an experiment. Thats the beauty of MD/PhD forums!

 

[magwi11]

Haha, I was waiting for someone to propose an experiment. Thats the beauty of MD/PhD forums!

It is our nature.

Seriously though, this is AWESOME.

 

[167649]

Wow, that's incredible.

Haha, I was waiting for someone to propose an experiment. Thats the beauty of MD/PhD forums!

 

[dendro]

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[MedRower]

Blind people tend not to run into walls as much as you might expect. Researchers were studying this a while ago. For a while researchers thought that it might be from the radiating heat from the walls, and tried to devise various methods of blocking, but to no avail. As it turns out, eventually they tried putting earplugs in the subjects ears, at which point they started walking into walls again.

As far as the fMRI experiment proposed above, what would you guys expect to see in his visual areas?

 

[MacBook]

😱 incredible