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🗓️ 6 March 2018
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0:00.0 | Understanding the human body is a team effort. That's where the Yachtel group comes in. |
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0:33.7 | This is Scientific American's 60-second science. |
0:37.2 | I'm Christopher in Taliatta. |
0:39.1 | Many bats use a system similar to sonar to navigate in the dark. They send out high-frequency sound, |
0:45.3 | sometimes as clicks, and get information about their surroundings by the timing and quality of the sound |
0:50.5 | that bounces back. And just as turning up the light in a darkened room helps to |
0:55.2 | illuminate the objects there, bats are known to turn up the intensity of their clicks when they |
0:59.5 | have trouble detecting a target. Now bats have had, you know, millions of years of evolution, |
1:04.1 | basically to sort of develop these mechanisms to dynamically adjust their missions. |
1:10.2 | Laura Toller, a neuroscientist at Durham University in the UK. |
1:13.6 | And what we were wondering is, well, do people do the same? |
1:17.6 | Because some people with impaired vision can indeed navigate |
1:20.6 | using the echoes of finger snaps, handclaps, or mouth clicks. |
1:25.6 | But it's not known how dynamic that ability is. |
1:29.0 | So Taller and her team presented eight expert echo locators with a challenge. |
1:33.3 | Could they tell whether a small dinner plate-sized object was being held up about three feet from |
1:37.8 | their head by clicking alone? |
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