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Sleep replay meets brain–machine interface

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Brain–machine interfaces provide not only potential therapies, but also new tools for studying neuronal processing. A study now uses them to investigate how learning affects sleep activity in motor cortex.

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Figure 1: Cartoon illustration of population activity patterns that may underlie the results of Gulati et al.4.

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