title: The acuity of echolocation: Spatial resolution in the sighted compared to expert performance.
abstract: Compared with the echolocation performance of a blind expert, sighted novices rapidly learned size and position discrimination with surprising precision. We use a novel task to characterize the population distribution of echolocation skill in the sighted and report the highest known human echolocation acuity in our expert subject.
authors: The Department of Psychology, and The Center for Mind and Brain, 267 Cousteau Place, University of California, Davis, California, 95618, USA. The Department of Psychology, 3210 Tolman Hall, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720, USA.
authors: Santani
authors: S
authors: Teng
authors: David
authors: D
authors: Whitney
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