Monday, November 5, 2012

Learning a New Sense - Helping Blind See with Their Fingers

Rats use a sense that humans don't: whisking. They move their facial whiskers back and forth about eight times a second to locate objects in their environment. Could humans acquire this sense? And if they can, what could understanding the process of adapting to new sensory input tell us about how humans normally sense?

URL: http://www.disabled-world.com/disability/types/vision/sense.php

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