Abstract
AbstractAnimals can quickly adapt learned movements in response to external perturbations. Motor adaptation is likely influenced by an animal’s existing movement repertoire, but the nature of this influence is unclear. Long-term learning causes lasting changes in neural connectivity which determine the activity patterns that can be produced. Here, we sought to understand how a neural population’s activity repertoire, acquired through long-term learning, affects short-term adaptation by modeling motor cortical neural population dynamics duringde novolearning and subsequent adaptation using recurrent neural networks. We trained these networks on different motor repertoires comprising varying numbers of movements. Networks with multiple movements had more constrained and robust dynamics, which were associated with more defined neural ‘structure’—organization created by the neural population activity patterns corresponding to each movement. This structure facilitated adaptation, but only when small changes in motor output were required, and when the structure of the network inputs, the neural activity space, and the perturbation were congruent. These results highlight trade-offs in skill acquisition and demonstrate how prior experience and external cues during learning can shape the geometrical properties of neural population activity as well as subsequent adaptation.
Publisher
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
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2 articles.
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