Is It Possible for Humans to Echolocate?

Human echolocation is the ability of humans to detect objects in their environment by sensing echoes from those objects, by actively creating sounds: for example, by tapping their canes, lightly stomping their foot, snapping their fingers, or making clicking noises with their mouths.

Is it possible for humans to learn echolocation?

Now, research published in PLOS ONE shows that people can learn click-based echolocation regardless of their age or ability to see, Alice Lipscombe-Southwell reports for BBC Science Focus magazine. ... Participants were between 21 and 79 years old, and included 12 people who are blind and 14 people who are not blind.

How accurate is human echolocation?

They went from an average accuracy of 80 percent with angles of 135 degrees to 50 percent when the disk was directly behind them. The researchers also found that the volunteers varied both the volume and rate of clicks they made when attempting to locate something.