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: Second, the difference in learnability between the two types of perturbation was present from the earliest sessions, and over the course of the study the monkeys did not improve at learning (Extended Data Fig.
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: Following outside-manifold perturbations, performance was not impaired, which is consistent with little, if any, learning having occurred (Extended Data Fig. Second, the difference in learnability between the two types of perturbation was present from the earliest sessions, and over the course of the study the monkeys did not improve at learning (Extended Data Fig. 4) .