虚拟现实中的飞行体验改变人类大脑

After training to use virtual wings, people’s brains responded to wing images more similarly to how they respond to images of arms, making wings seem more like body parts, cognitive neuroscientist Yanchao Bi and colleagues report. The study, published in Cell Reports, “nicely demonstrates how plastic the brain is,” says Jane Aspell, a cognitive neuro- scientist at Anglia Ruskin University in Cambridge, England. “If the brain can incorporate something as un human as a wing, it may also be able to incorporate many other kinds of limb enhancements.” Bi, of Peking University in Beijing, has long dreamed of flying on her own. “It would be amazing,” she says. “Your whole world would become different.” …