Seeing with Your Ears: A Wondrous Journey Across the Senses

We will briefly describe here a few studies that challenge this theory. Using a special method, named “sensory substitution,” researchers have been able to demonstrate that blind people could “see” using sounds. Using a brain scanner, they showed that those brain areas, thought to have lost their ability to process visual information, play a central role in the ability to “see using sound” and identify objects, faces, letters, and more [1].