News Finding: "It helps scientists study the dynamics of brain circuits that may explain the neural basis of learning."
Paper Finding: Following outside-manifold perturbations, performance was not impaired, which is consistent with little, if any, learning having occurred (Extended Data Fig.
News Context: We found that subjects were able to more readily recombine familiar activity patterns in new ways relative to creating entirely novel patterns." "It helps scientists study the dynamics of brain circuits that may explain the neural basis of learning." The results showed that the subjects learned to generate some neural activity patterns more easily than others, since they only sometimes achieved accurate cursor movements.
Paper Context: Following within-manifold perturbations, performance was impaired briefly (Extended Data Fig. Following outside-manifold perturbations, performance was not impaired, which is consistent with little, if any, learning having occurred (Extended Data Fig. Second, the difference in learnability between the two types of perturbation was present from the earliest sessions, and over the course of the study the monkeys did not improve at learning (Extended Data Fig.