'Super recognisers' - people with extraordinary face recognition abilities 👤✨ - do not see more detail in faces, instead, they naturally look at the parts of a face that carry the best information for identifying faces.

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🧠 Expert echolocators, including those who are blind, use tongue clicks to "see" their environment, with brain scans showing their visual cortex responding to sound echoes.

💡 A 2021 study by Lore Thaler found that both blind and sighted individuals can learn echolocation with just 10 weeks of training, repurposing visual brain regions.

📊 After 10 weeks of training (2-3 hours, twice weekly), 14 sighted and 12 blind participants improved navigation and object recognition skills, with both groups showing visual cortex activation in response to echoes.

📈 A three-month follow-up revealed 83% of blind participants who learned echolocation reported increased independence and well-being.

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