{"id":241454,"date":"2026-07-24T00:06:53","date_gmt":"2026-07-24T05:06:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/07\/humans-can-learn-to-echolocate-in-just-10-weeks-and-it-rewires-the-brain"},"modified":"2026-07-24T00:06:53","modified_gmt":"2026-07-24T05:06:53","slug":"humans-can-learn-to-echolocate-in-just-10-weeks-and-it-rewires-the-brain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/07\/humans-can-learn-to-echolocate-in-just-10-weeks-and-it-rewires-the-brain","title":{"rendered":"Humans Can Learn to Echolocate in Just 10 Weeks, And It Rewires The Brain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/humans-can-learn-to-echolocate-in-just-10-weeks-and-it-rewires-the-brain.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Echolocation is a fascinating way that animals <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/peculiar-bat-behavior-revealed-in-a-400-year-old-painting\">like bats<\/a> and whales find their way around the world.<\/p>\n<p>By emitting sounds and decoding the echoes that come back, these species are able to detect what\u2019s around them in their local environment.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s something we know that humans can do too \u2013 and it takes less training than you might think.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Echolocation is a fascinating way that animals like bats and whales find their way around the world. By emitting sounds and decoding the echoes that come back, these species are able to detect what\u2019s around them in their local environment. It\u2019s something we know that humans can do too \u2013 and it takes less training [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-241454","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241454","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=241454"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241454\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=241454"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=241454"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=241454"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}