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: At the beginning of each day, the monkey was typically able to control the cursor proficiently using the previous day's intuitive mapping.
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: For monkey L, we did not analyse 3 sessions (2 within-manifold perturbations; 1 outside-manifold perturbation). At the beginning of each day, the monkey was typically able to control the cursor proficiently using the previous day's intuitive mapping. The following describes the BCI calibration procedure for monkey L. We observed that neural activity for this monkey was not as stable from day to day as it was for monkey J.