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Paper Finding: Two additional lines of evidence show that BCI control was more learnable when using within-manifold perturbations than outside-manifold perturbations.
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Paper Context: These results support our hypothesis that the structure of a network determines which patterns of neural activity (and corresponding behaviours) a subject can readily learn to generate. Two additional lines of evidence show that BCI control was more learnable when using within-manifold perturbations than outside-manifold perturbations. First, perturbation types differed in their after-effects.