News Finding: "We found that the brain works in a similar way during learning.
Paper Finding: 4d ), we probably could have selected a different dimensionality within the range of near-optimal dimensionalities and still attained similar results (Extended Data Fig.
News Context: 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. "We found that the brain works in a similar way during learning. We found that subjects were able to more readily recombine familiar activity patterns in new ways relative to creating entirely novel patterns."
Paper Context: Because the top few dimensions captured the majority of the co-modulation among the neural units ( Fig. 4d ), we probably could have selected a different dimensionality within the range of near-optimal dimensionalities and still attained similar results (Extended Data Fig. 7 caption).