News Finding: "Restoring function might require a person to generate a new pattern of neural activity.
Paper Finding: For monkey L (bottom), the change in success rate was greater for within-manifold perturbations than for outside-manifold perturbations, and the difference approached significance (P 5 0.088, t-test).
News Context: "These findings could be the basis for novel rehabilitation procedures for the many neural disorders that are characterized by improper neural activity," Yu says. "Restoring function might require a person to generate a new pattern of neural activity. We could use techniques similar to what were used in this study to coach patients to generate proper neural activity."
Paper Context: The change in success rate was significantly greater for withinmanifold perturbations than for outside-manifold perturbations for monkey J (top, P , 10 23 , t-test). For monkey L (bottom), the change in success rate was greater for within-manifold perturbations than for outside-manifold perturbations, and the difference approached significance (P 5 0.088, t-test). For both monkeys, the change in acquisition time for within-manifold perturbations was significantly greater than for outside-manifold perturbations (monkey J (top), P , 10 24 , t-test; monkey L (bottom), P 5 0.0014, t-test).