News Finding: Neural circuitry constrains the space of possible activity patterns during learning  via @username
Paper Finding: These results suggest that the existing structure of a network can shape learning.
News Context: Neural circuitry constrains the space of possible activity patterns during learning  via @username
Paper Context: However, animals were less able to learn to proficiently control the cursor using activity patterns that were outside of the intrinsic manifold. These results suggest that the existing structure of a network can shape learning. On a timescale of hours, it seems to be difficult to learn to generate neural activity patterns that are not consistent with the existing network structure.