Understanding why people born blind never develop schizophrenia could transform how we think about and treat one of medicine’s most baffling conditions.
When I was in grade school, we had a music teacher who was blind from birth. If someone was jacking around in class, she knew where all the students sat and could identify the culprit by relying entirely on her hearing. It was impressive.
I had a cocker spaniel that went blind from glaucoma, and he got around much better than you would expect. I guess dog hearing is probably pretty good for that
dogs also have pretty… dogwater… vision, to start with they can’t see read and then on top of that it’s just generally low quality.
AFAIK we humans actually pretty amazing vision by general animal standards
They also can learn to echolocate to the point the vision area of the brain process it.
When I was in grade school, we had a music teacher who was blind from birth. If someone was jacking around in class, she knew where all the students sat and could identify the culprit by relying entirely on her hearing. It was impressive.
I mean, she’s a music teacher so she probably recognized the voices.
I read the anecdote as identifying location of any horseplay-related sound, not just voices.
Exactly. Voices would have been easy to identify. This lady could pinpoint the source of random noises with an incredible degree of accuracy.
I remember long ago, watching a show where a blind teenage boy used echolocation to skateboard around. I thought it was the coolest thing.
I had a cocker spaniel that went blind from glaucoma, and he got around much better than you would expect. I guess dog hearing is probably pretty good for that
dogs also have pretty… dogwater… vision, to start with they can’t see read and then on top of that it’s just generally low quality.
AFAIK we humans actually pretty amazing vision by general animal standards
Now That’s Incredible! ™
So that’s where they got the idea for Toph. Its a real thing! Huh the more you know