Monday, 3 November 2014

Daredevil research interjection

Whilst I'm drawing up my concepts for how my Daredevil is going to look, I have been looking into something called Human Echolocation. There's a myth that built the character of Daredevil which is that when a human looses one of their 5 senses, their remaining senses are heightened to a level which compensates for the loss. This may be true in some cases, but scientists have put in the research and came to the conclusion of this being a myth. A blind person could also have poor hearing but maybe they have more acknowledgement for their remaining senses.
Echolocation is a skill trait belonging to bats and dolphins where they use noise and their hearing as a form of radar sense to see where they are going. Human Echolocation is as it states, this technique applied by humans. Using sounds, humans can identify objects through sound the same way these animals can, any human can practice this skill, but it is most useful and effective for the blind. The way this works is that by creating a sound, the vibrations of the noise sent out are echoed back to the person's ears and a vision of the objects is created by training the visual parts of the brain to work together with the auditory parts of the brain.
Here's an example of a blind person using echolocation.

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