Localization of a virtual wall by means of active echolocation by untrained sighted persons KU Leuven
© 2018 Elsevier Ltd The active sensing and perception of the environment by auditory means is typically known as echolocation and it can be acquired by humans, who can profit from it in the absence of vision. We investigated the ability of twenty-one untrained sighted participants to use echolocation with self-generated oral clicks for aligning themselves within the horizontal plane towards a virtual wall, emulated with an acoustic virtual ...