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: By construction, the intuitive mapping lies within the intrinsic manifold.
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: Such co-modulations among neurons mean that neural activity does not uniformly populate the neural space [16] . By construction, the intuitive mapping lies within the intrinsic manifold. A within-manifold perturbation was created by re-orienting the intuitive control space but keeping it within the intrinsic manifold (depicted as the red line in Fig.