News Finding: @username @username And explicitly in Sadtler et al (2014, Nature), who used mappings from population activity to BMIs to test how easy new mappings were to learn when "on" or "off" the manifold of motor cortex activity
  
  
Paper Finding: In both cases, performance was impaired once the new mapping was introduced, and we observed whether the monkeys could learn to regain proficient control of the cursor.
News Context: @username @username And explicitly in Sadtler et al (2014, Nature), who used mappings from population activity to BMIs to test how easy new mappings were to learn when "on" or "off" the manifold of motor cortex activity
  
  
Paper Context: This altered the way in which neural units contributed to co-modulation patterns, but it preserved the way in which comodulation patterns affected cursor kinematics (blue arrows, Fig. In both cases, performance was impaired once the new mapping was introduced, and we observed whether the monkeys could learn to regain proficient control of the cursor. To regain proficient control of the cursor under a within-manifold perturbation, the animals had to learn new associations between the natural co-modulation patterns and the cursor kinematics (Fig.