News Finding: "We found that the brain works in a similar way during learning.
Paper Finding: We observed that performance with our modified Kalman filter is qualitatively similar to performance with a standard Kalman filter (data not shown).
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: This modification allowed us to perform the two different types of perturbation. We observed that performance with our modified Kalman filter is qualitatively similar to performance with a standard Kalman filter (data not shown). Because spike counts were z-scored before factor analysis, m~0.