News Finding: "We found that the brain works in a similar way during learning.
Paper Finding: For monkey L, we reduced the size of the search space for the outside-manifold perturbations, thereby equalizing the size of the search space for the two perturbation types.
News Context: Understanding how 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: We recognized that this difference may have affected the monkey's ability to learn outsidemanifold perturbations. For monkey L, we reduced the size of the search space for the outside-manifold perturbations, thereby equalizing the size of the search space for the two perturbation types. We then considered all g OM to be candidate outside-manifold perturbations.