After flying with virtual wings for one week, the brain learns to accept the impossible https://sciencex.com/news/2026-05-flying-virtual-wings-week-brain.html #noninvasive #BCI #neuroscience
Cell Reports: Virtual flying experience changes neural responses to seeing wings https://www.cell.com/cell-reports/fulltext/S2211-1247(26)00398-0 "LOTC" [...] "body selectivity in this region has been observed when congenitally blind individuals perceive body-part shapes via auditory inputs in sensory-substitution paradigms"

The human brain is an incredible organ, capable of constant adaptation and incredible flexibility. It can learn new skills and incorporate new experiences. And, according to a paper published in the journal Cell Reports, it may even be able to adjust how it represents body parts that we were not born with, such as wings.
I'm looking for quantifiable measures of effective information bandwidth from auditory to visual areas in the human brain. Has anyone tried that using what is now known about the human connectome? Next question will be how sensory experience may affect this bandwidth through functional re-routing (non-physical "rewiring").