25 people learned to fly with virtual wings. Here’s how the brain changed
After flight training, the brain began treating wings more like real limbs
In a new study, volunteers were trained to move wings in VR. Here, neuroscientist and study coauthor Yiyang Cai uses the system. Her physical movements (top left) correspond to the real-time visual feedback inside the VR head-mounted display (center).
Ziyi Xiong/Beijing Normal University and Yiyang Cai/Peking University