Bike riding with up/down and left/right swaps

These two videos show two related experiments that demonstrate some very weird things the human brain can do. The first, newer video shows Destin (the creator of the SmarterEveryDay videos) learning to ride a bike in which the left/right turning machinery has been reversed:



The second shows the Erismann/Koehler experiment in which a person learned to navigate the world while wearing special glasses that make up into down (and down into up). The bicycle part comes very near the end of the video, as a culminating achievement:



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