Dr Lore Thaler's Outputs (4)

Visual sensory stimulation interferes with people’s ability to echolocate object size (2017)
Journal Article
Thaler, L., & Foresteire, D. (2017). Visual sensory stimulation interferes with people’s ability to echolocate object size. Scientific Reports, 7, Article 13069. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-017-12967-3

Echolocation is the ability to use sound-echoes to infer spatial information about the environment. People can echolocate for example by making mouth clicks. Previous research suggests that echolocation in blind people activates brain areas that proc... Read More about Visual sensory stimulation interferes with people’s ability to echolocate object size.

Mouth-Clicks used by Blind Expert Human Echolocators – Signal Description and Model Based Signal Synthesis (2017)
Journal Article
Thaler, L., Reich, G. M., Zhang, X., Wang, D., Smith, G. E., Tao, Z., …Antoniou, M. (2017). Mouth-Clicks used by Blind Expert Human Echolocators – Signal Description and Model Based Signal Synthesis. PLoS Computational Biology, 13(8), Article e1005670. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pcbi.1005670

Echolocation is the ability to use sound-echoes to infer spatial information about the environment. Some blind people have developed extraordinary proficiency in echolocation using mouth-clicks. The first step of human biosonar is the transmission (m... Read More about Mouth-Clicks used by Blind Expert Human Echolocators – Signal Description and Model Based Signal Synthesis.

Human Echolocation - Spatial Resolution and Signal Properties (2017)
Book Chapter
Norman, L., & Thaler, L. (2017). Human Echolocation - Spatial Resolution and Signal Properties. In A. Balleri, H. Griffiths, & C. Baker (Eds.), Biologically-inspired radar and sonar : lessons from nature (209-227). Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET). https://doi.org/10.1049/sbra514e_ch10

This paper will focus on the echolocation abilities of humans, describing the acoustic properties of their emissions as well as the acuity with which they are able to discriminate certain object properties - distance, angle (horizontal and vertical),... Read More about Human Echolocation - Spatial Resolution and Signal Properties.

Human echolocation: Waveform Analysis of Tongue Clicks (2017)
Journal Article
Zhang, X., Reich, G., Antoniou, M., Cherniakov, M., Baker, C., Thaler, L., …Smith, G. (2017). Human echolocation: Waveform Analysis of Tongue Clicks. Electronics Letters, 53(9), 580-582. https://doi.org/10.1049/el.2017.0454

Some blind individuals have the ability to detect and classify objects in complex scenes by using echolocation based on ‘tongue clicks’. A waveform analysis of the tongue clicks collected from three blind individuals is presented who use tongue-click... Read More about Human echolocation: Waveform Analysis of Tongue Clicks.