News Finding: "It helps scientists study the dynamics of brain circuits that may explain the neural basis of learning."
Paper Finding: A BCI offers advantages for studying learning because we can observe all of the neurons that directly control an action, and we can fully specify the mapping from neural activity to action.
News Context: We found that subjects were able to more readily recombine familiar activity patterns in new ways relative to creating entirely novel patterns." "It helps scientists study the dynamics of brain circuits that may explain the neural basis of learning." The results showed that the subjects learned to generate some neural activity patterns more easily than others, since they only sometimes achieved accurate cursor movements.
Paper Context: Some behaviours are easier to learn than others 1-4 . A BCI offers advantages for studying learning because we can observe all of the neurons that directly control an action, and we can fully specify the mapping from neural activity to action. In the simplified network represented in Fig.