The question of controller inversion provided the perfect opportunity to study the neuroscience of human-computer interactions using remote subjects. They put out a call for gamers willing to help research the reasons behind controller inversion and received many hundreds of replies. We added a whole new section to the study based on all this feedback.”View image in fullscreen Mental rotation … a subject being tested as part of controller inversion research. It’s much more likely that you invert or don’t invert due to how your brain perceives objects in 3D space. “The most surprising finding for gamers [who don’t invert] is that they might perform better if they practised with an inverted control scheme,” says Corbett.