• PLOS.ORG
  • PLOS JOURNALS
  • ABOUT
  • CONTACT
  • Login
PLOS Blogs
Thursday, May 23, 2013 | Diverse Perspectives on Science and Medicine
Skip to content
  • HOME
  • STAFF BLOGS ↓
    • The Official PLOS Blog
    • EveryONE
    • PLOS Biologue
    • PLOS Podcasts
    • Speaking of Medicine
  • BLOGS NETWORK ↓
    • The Guest Blog
    • ECO
      • All Models Are Wrong
      • The Gleaming Retort
      • Integrative Paleontologists
      • Tooth and Claw
      • Wonderland
    • HEALTH
      • Body Politic
      • DNA Science Blog
      • This May Hurt A Bit
      • Obesity Panacea
      • Public Health
      • Translational Global Health
      • Work In Progress
    • NEURO
      • Mind the Brain
      • Neuroanthropology
      • Neurotribes
    • CULTURE
      • At the Interface
      • CitizenSci
      • Gobbledygook
      • MIT SciWrite
      • Neuroanthropology
      • Neurotribes
      • The Panic Virus
      • Sci-Ed
      • The Student Blog
    • ARCHIVED BLOGS
      • Bad Physics
      • Genomeboy
      • Speakeasy Science
      • Take As Directed
  • COMMUNITY ↓
    • About PLOS Blogs
    • List of All Blogs
    • PLOS Blogs Contact
    • Community Guidelines
RSS Feed Neuroanthropology
Neuroanthropology
Neuroanthropology
Skip to content

Blog Archives

Getting around by sound: Human echolocation

By gregdowney
Posted: June 14, 2011
Category: Perception, Plasticity | Tagged blindness, Daniel Kish, echolocation, flash sonar, perceptual plasticity, sensory learning | 25 Comments
  • Our Recent Posts

    • Neurocriminology, Meet Human Development
    • Our Inner Voices
    • Who’s afraid of a MOOC?: on being education-y and course-ish
    • Advances in Cultural Neuroscience
    • The Making of a Cultural Neuroscientist
    • Introducing Liz Losin, Cultural Neuroscientist
  • RSS Neuroanthropology on Facebook – Shorter Posts, More Fun!

    • Working on Memory. Ed Yong and Brad Voytek cover research on how we can change...
    • Crack Babies: Medicalization and Media Hysteria. The NYT has put together a powe...
    • Speaking in Tongues. Chris Lynn describes his newly published Ethos paper in thi...
    • Critiques of the DSM 5 The Wall Street Journal covers two new books on the DSM 5...
  • Multi Twitter

    • lizlosinlizlosin: Feeling even more inspired to communicate science via social media by @talyarkoni in talk on communicating social neuroscience at #SANS2013
      1 month ago
    • neurole (Helen)neurole (Helen): RT @daniel_lende: Guns on the Brain http://t.co/wB7HSICEBu Embodied cognition and how holding a gun in hand interacts with emotion & enviro…
      19 hours ago
    • Kitri1 (Maria Lucia Martin)Kitri1 (Maria Lucia Martin): RT @daniel_lende: The Neurocritic: What RDoC Research Might Look Like http://t.co/D1dOc9uAVv Great post for those following DSM vs NIMH deb…
      19 hours ago
    • bradleyvoytek (Bradley Voytek)bradleyvoytek (Bradley Voytek): @daniel_lende @David_Dobbs @harpersnotes thank you for sharing, gentlemen!
      19 hours ago
    • somatosphere (Somatosphere)somatosphere (Somatosphere): RT @daniel_lende From Social Structure 2 Gene Regulation & Back: Critical Intro 2 Envirnmntal Epigenetics 4 Sociology http://t.co/lKHYV2SQhS
      19 hours ago
    • HelgaBitter (Helga Bitter)HelgaBitter (Helga Bitter): RT @daniel_lende: Crack Babies: A Tale from the Drug Wars http://t.co/x7Ew8vCzJH Highly recommended. Fascinating depiction of medical & med…
      19 hours ago
    • David_Dobbs (David Dobbs)David_Dobbs (David Dobbs): RT @daniel_lende: Crack Babies: A Tale from the Drug Wars http://t.co/x7Ew8vCzJH Highly recommended. Fascinating depiction of medical & med…
      19 hours ago

    powered by Incbrite Wordpress Plugins
  • Recent Comments

    • Sunday Smörgåsbord | ED Bites on The Anthropology of Obesity
    • Todos llevamos un Matt Murdock dentro, pero hay que estar ciegos… | Historias Cienciacionales on Getting around by sound: Human echolocation
    • daniel.lende on Our Inner Voices
    • Our Inner Voices | Neuroanthropology on Tanya Luhrmann, hearing voices in Accra and Chenai
    • Part 11. Humans Are Blank-ogamous. Sexaptation: The Many Functions of Sex | Patrick F. Clarkin, Ph.D. on The long, slow sexual revolution (part 1) with nsfw video
  • Latest PLoG Posts

    • Hairy, Sticky Leg Pads are In: How Different Spiders Hunt in Neuroanthropology
    • Gun Control, Woopty Doo! in Neuroanthropology
    • Bacterium excluded from the Eukaryote Club in Neuroanthropology
    • This Week in PLOS Medicine: Integrating Mental Health & HIV Care, Colon & Gastric Cancer, & Essential Pediatric Medicines in Neuroanthropology
    • MATH and Tumors in Neuroanthropology
    • Metrics and attribution: my thoughts for the panel at the ORCID-Dryad symposium on research attribution in Neuroanthropology
  • PLoGs

    • Body Politic
    • EveryONE
    • GenomeBoy
    • Gobbledygook
    • MIT Sci Write
    • NeuroTribes
    • Obesity Panacea
    • PLoS.org
    • Speakeasy Science
    • Speaking of Medicine
    • Take as Directed
    • The Gleaming Retort
    • The Language of Bad Physics
    • The Panic Virus
    • The Student Blog
    • This May Hurt a Bit
    • Tooth and Claw
    • Wonderland
    • Work in Progress
  • Some Faves

    • 3 Quarks Daily
    • Addiction Inbox
    • Amer Anthro Assoc Blog
    • Anthropologies
    • Anthropology in Practice
    • Anthropology Report
    • Antropologi.Info
    • Bandit Blog
    • BPS Research Digest
    • Brainy Gamer
    • Cognition & Culture
    • Context and Variation
    • Critical Neuroscience Blog
    • Culture Matters
    • Dr. Shock
    • Ethnografix
    • Frontal Cortex
    • John Hawks
    • Language Log
    • Living Anthropologically
    • Middle Savagery
    • Mind Hacks
    • Neuron Culture
    • Neurophilosophy
    • Not Exactly Rocket Science
    • NPR 13.7
    • Patrick Clarkin
    • Primate Diaries
    • Savage Minds
    • Somatosphere
    • The FPR.org Blog
    • The Neurocritic
    • Zero Anthropology
  • Want More?

    • Aardvarchaeology
    • Access Denied
    • Adam Van Arsdale
    • Advances in the History of Psychology
    • Afarensis
    • All in the Mind
    • Anthropological Observations
    • Anthropologists for Justice & Peace
    • Anthropology Works
    • Anthropology.net
    • Anthropomics
    • Ars Psychiatrica
    • Babel's Dawn
    • Bones Don't Lie
    • Brain Ethics
    • Brain Science Podcast
    • Brainstorm
    • Channel N
    • Child's Play
    • Closer
    • Crooked Timber
    • Cross Check
    • Cultural Neuroscience
    • Cyber Anthropology
    • Dead Voles
    • Deric Bownds
    • Developing Intelligence
    • Digital Ethnography
    • Documentation
    • Doula Ambitions
    • Dr. Kiki's Science Hour
    • Dr. X
    • Edge
    • Erkan's Field Diary
    • Ethnography.com
    • Four Stone Hearth
    • From the Annals of Anthroman
    • Furious Seasons
    • Greg Laden
    • Hominid Hunting
    • Immanent Frame
    • Keywords
    • Lawn Chair Anthropology
    • Mark Changizi
    • Material World
    • media/anthropology
    • Moral Landscapes
    • My Mind on Books
    • Neuronarrative
    • Neuroskeptic
    • On the Human
    • Open Anthropology Cooperative
    • Parenthropology
    • Plugins
    • Powered by Osteons
    • Prancing Papio
    • Publishing Archaeology
    • Scicurious Brain
    • Sharp Brains
    • Shreds and Patches
    • Sports Are 80% Mental
    • Suggest Ideas
    • Support Forum
    • Teaching Anthropology
    • The Loom
    • The Memory Bank
    • The Neuro Times
    • The Situationist
    • The Splintered Mind
    • The Thoughtful Animal
    • Thinking Meat
    • We're Only Human
    • What Makes Us Human
    • WordPress Blog
    • WordPress Planet
  • Our Pages

    • About Neuroanthropology
    • Popular Posts
    • The Encultured Brain
  • Neuroanthropology. Sometimes it’s straight-up neuroscience, sometimes it’s all anthropology, most of the time it’s somewhere in the middle. Greg is the cultural guy, now interested in bio stuff. Daniel is the bio guy, now interested in cultural stuff. Or, to say it differently, Greg does capoiera, mixed martial arts, and rugby. Daniel does alcohol, drugs, and video games. Two very different styles of recreation.

    Twitter:
    @daniel_lende
    @GregDowney1

    Facebook:
    Neuroanthropology Facebook Site
    Neuroanthropology Interest Group

    More Info:
    About blog, bloggers, and field
    Book: The Encultured Brain: An Introduction to Neuroanthropology

  • Archives

  • RSS Greg’s Twitter updates – @GregDowney1

    • GregDowney1: Great preview, only wish it was longer. New doco, Revolutionary Optimists, aspiration & not accepting fate in India. http://t.co/mESj55SLZv
    • GregDowney1: Gay marriage would create Stolen Generation: here's vid of Lyle Shelton of Christian Lobby trying to argue. http://t.co/EyOvdXWEYf @abcnews
    • GregDowney1: RT @antloewenstein: What have we wrought in Haiti?: Nation prone to natural and man-made disasters receive far too lit... http://t.co/kwMWz…
    • GregDowney1: Senator Wong condemns Christian Lobby's stolen generations comment, does not point out tortured logic of it. http://t.co/VSSCuZzIf9 via @smh
    • GregDowney1: RT @sciamblogs: Becoming an individual twin isn’t about genetics or environment, but how you experience them http://t.co/PrledU8RPA @scicur…
  • Categories

    Addiction Announcements Application Body Brain Consumption Critique Culture Development Evolution Fun Gender Health Inequality Language Learning Links Mind Perception Plasticity Round Up Skill Society Sport Stress Technology Theory Variation
  • Twitter Updates

  • RSS New in PLoS ONE

    • Prolonged Internal Displacement and Common Mental Disorders in Sri Lanka: The COMRAID Study
    • Peripheral Blood MDSCs, IL-10 and IL-12 in Children with Asthma and Their Importance in Asthma Development
    • Local Applications of Myostatin-siRNA with Atelocollagen Increase Skeletal Muscle Mass and Recovery of Muscle Function
    • Repetition Suppression for Speech Processing in the Associative Occipital and Parietal Cortex of Congenitally Blind Adults
    • Prevalence and Risk Factors of Asymptomatic Peripheral Arterial Disease in Patients with COPD in Taiwan
  • Follow this blog
  • PLOS Blogosphere

    • PLOS Biologue
    • PLOS Podcast
    • Speaking of Medicine
    • The Official PLOS Blog
  • About

    • About PLOS Blogs
    • Community Guidelines
  • Contact us

    Do you have a suggestion or want to submit a report? Fill out this form.
  • PLOS Blogs Network

    • All Models Are Wrong
    • At the Interface
    • Body Politic
    • CitizenSci
    • DNA Science Blog
    • Gobbledygook
    • Integrative Paleontologists
    • Mind the Brain
    • MIT SciWrite
    • Neuroanthropology
    • NeuroTribes
    • Obesity Panacea
    • Public Health
    • Sci-Ed
    • The Gleaming Retort
    • The Guest Blog
    • The Panic Virus
    • The Student Blog
    • This May Hurt a Bit
    • Tooth and Claw
    • Translational Global Health
    • Wonderland
    • Work In Progress
  • Latest network posts

    • Hairy, Sticky Leg Pads are In: How Different Spiders Hunt in Neuroanthropology
    • Gun Control, Woopty Doo! in Neuroanthropology
    • Bacterium excluded from the Eukaryote Club in Neuroanthropology
    • This Week in PLOS Medicine: Integrating Mental Health & HIV Care, Colon & Gastric Cancer, & Essential Pediatric Medicines in Neuroanthropology
    • MATH and Tumors in Neuroanthropology
  • Latest network comments

    • Hey , I like your Amazing): site. Great c... by Compare Flights in Take As Directed
    • RT @findlocalfood: A good article asking ... by JammyBodgerUK in Translational Global Health
    • Appreciating the hard work you put into y... by Skutery elektryczne in Speakeasy Science
    • I believe that is one of several a lot si... by porn in Obesity Panacea
    • Do we need any better example of the idio... by John Caile in Speaking of Medicine
    • Hey there are using Wordpress for your si... by Marty in Obesity Panacea
    • Let me start by saying I am an Australian... by Leigh in Speaking of Medicine
    • tornadoes kill lots of people.........why... by dan deeton in Speaking of Medicine
    • Paul I hope you aren't actually being pai... by Ty in Speaking of Medicine
    • Kevin is absolutely correct. by Ty in Speaking of Medicine
The public library of science   —   Science Blog Network