Homuncular Flexibility: The Human Ability to Inhabit Nonhuman Avatars

Experiments such as the rubber hand illusion, in which people respond to rubber hands placed near their arms as if they were their actual hands, demonstrated that a person’s sense of their body can be adjusted to include external objects.

Evidence demonstrates neural plasticity in nature; for example, amputees experience cortical shifting such that their face receives extra attention in the brain after a limb is amputated. 

Homuncular Flexibility is a paradigm in which physical motions are transformed by remapping degrees of freedom from tracked movements onto an avatar.