News Finding: 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.
Paper Finding: 2) , indicating that they could learn new associations between natural co-modulation patterns and cursor kinematics.
News Context: Because the existing brain patterns likely reflect how the neurons are interconnected, the results suggest that the connectivity among neurons shapes learning. 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.
Paper Context: For within-manifold perturbations, the animals regained proficient control of the cursor (red histograms in Fig. 2) , indicating that they could learn new associations between natural co-modulation patterns and cursor kinematics. For outsidemanifold perturbations, BCI performance remained impaired (blue histograms in Fig.