News Finding: For example, a trained pianist can learn a new melody easier than learning how to hit a tennis serve.
Paper Finding: Just after the perturbed mappings were introduced, BCI performance was impaired ( Fig.
News Context: Learning a new skill is easier when it is related to an ability we already have. For example, a trained pianist can learn a new melody easier than learning how to hit a tennis serve. Understanding the ways in which the brain's activity can be "flexed" during learning could eventually be used to develop better treatments for stroke and other brain injuries.
Paper Context: 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. Just after the perturbed mappings were introduced, BCI performance was impaired ( Fig. Performance improved for the within-manifold perturbation ( Fig.