News Finding: "These findings could be the basis for novel rehabilitation procedures for the many neural disorders that are characterized by improper neural activity," Yu says.
Paper Finding: First, perturbation types differed in their after-effects.
News Context: Byron M. Yu, assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering and biomedical engineering at Carnegie Mellon, believes this work demonstrates the utility of BCI for basic scientific studies that will eventually impact people's lives. "These findings could be the basis for novel rehabilitation procedures for the many neural disorders that are characterized by improper neural activity," Yu says. "Restoring function might require a person to generate a new pattern of neural activity.
Paper Context: Two additional lines of evidence show that BCI control was more learnable when using within-manifold perturbations than outside-manifold perturbations. First, perturbation types differed in their after-effects. Following within-manifold perturbations, performance was impaired briefly (Extended Data Fig.