News Finding: Understanding how the brain's activity can be "flexed" during learning could eventually be used to develop better treatments for stroke and other brain injuries.
Paper Finding: The first ten groups had an equal number of neural units.
News Context: As reported in Nature, the researchers found for the first time that there are limitations on how adaptable the brain is during learning and that these restrictions are a key determinant for whether a new skill will be easy or difficult to learn. Understanding how the brain's activity can be "flexed" during learning could eventually be used to develop better treatments for stroke and other brain injuries. "We found that the brain works in a similar way during learning.
Paper Context: We then considered all g OM to be candidate outside-manifold perturbations. The first ten groups had an equal number of neural units. The eleventh group had the remaining neural units.