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: These alternative explanations did reveal interesting secondary aspects of the data; they partially explained within-category differences in learnability, albeit in an idiosyncratic manner between the two monkeys (Extended Data Fig.
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: We conclude from these analyses that the parsimonious explanation for BCI learning is whether or not the new control space is within the intrinsic manifold. These alternative explanations did reveal interesting secondary aspects of the data; they partially explained within-category differences in learnability, albeit in an idiosyncratic manner between the two monkeys (Extended Data Fig. Although our estimate of the intrinsic manifold can depend on several methodological factors (Extended Data Fig.