A group of 14 sighted and 12 blind participants took part ... research paper The most surprising finding wasn’t that people could learn echolocation – it was how accessible the skill proved ...

The study, led by Durham University, is the first of its kind to use MRI scans to analyze the brain activity of sighted and blind people before and after they are trained in echolocation.

Ruben Graham-Morris, a blind eight-year-old boy, has mastered echolocation to get around on his own. Ruben was born with Leber's congenital amaurosis, a genetic disease that left him blind from birth.

Yet these animals can do many extraordinary things-they can emit sounds for echolocation that allow ... No, bats are not blind. The common saying and belief that bats are not seeing where they ...