News Finding: "It helps scientists study the dynamics of brain circuits that may explain the neural basis of learning."
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: 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: 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.