News Finding: We found that subjects were able to more readily recombine familiar activity patterns in new ways relative to creating entirely novel patterns."
Paper Finding: Fitts' Law predicts that movement speed depends on movement amplitude and target size 39 , and these were always the same in our experiments.
News Context: "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." "It helps scientists study the dynamics of brain circuits that may explain the neural basis of learning."
Paper Context: As a result, the columns of M 2,OM corresponding to the non-permuted units were the same as in M 2 . Fitts' Law predicts that movement speed depends on movement amplitude and target size 39 , and these were always the same in our experiments. The firing rates for the perturbed mapping should be as close as possible to the firing rates we recorded when the monkeys used the intuitive mapping.