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Why do some gamers invert their controls?
The phenomenal response to an article we published on this question led to detailed cognitive research – and the findings have implications that go way beyond gamers
Five years ago, on the verge of the first Covid lockdown, I wrote an article asking what seemed to be an extremely niche question: why do some people invert their controls when playing 3D games? Photograph: Jen CorbettBut Corbett and Munneke, now based at MIT and Northeastern University respectively, were certain that there would also be important cognitive components to the inversion question that could be measured only through behavioural responses. Photograph: Oksana Krasiuk/Alamy“This work opened our eyes to the huge potential that optimising inversion settings has for advancing human-machine teaming,” says Corbett.
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