News Finding: "Restoring function might require a person to generate a new pattern of neural activity.
Paper Finding: Permuting the units with larger modulation depths impacted the monkey's ability to proficiently control the cursor more than would permuting units with smaller modulation depths.
News Context: "These findings could be the basis for novel rehabilitation procedures for the many neural disorders that are characterized by improper neural activity," Yu says. "Restoring function might require a person to generate a new pattern of neural activity. We could use techniques similar to what were used in this study to coach patients to generate proper neural activity."
Paper Context: Due to computational constraints, we were unable to consider every possible g OM as a candidate perturbation. Permuting the units with larger modulation depths impacted the monkey's ability to proficiently control the cursor more than would permuting units with smaller modulation depths. This formed the set of candidate outside-manifold perturbations.