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   "paper": "10.1016/j.neuron.2018.09.030",
   "paper_title": "A Neural Population Mechanism for Rapid Learning",
   "date": "2026-10-31",
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   "entry_title": "PMd and M1 population structure in Baseline reaching (Perich, Gallego and Miller 2018)",
   "description": "Tests the findings of Perich, Gallego and Miller (2018) that can be tested on dandiset 000688. The dandiset holds the Baseline epoch only of the dual-array center-out sessions of Monkeys C and M, without the curl field, visuomotor rotation and Washout trials, and without labels saying which sessions are the paper's. It tests the unit counts, the dimensionality of the PMd and M1 manifolds, the null/potent index of PMd neurons, and the lag between output-null and output-potent activity in Baseline.",
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     "path": "reproduce_perich_2018.ipynb",
     "title": "Reproducing Perich et al. (2018) from dandiset 000688",
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     "claim": "methods-neuron-counts",
     "statement": "Per session, 137 to 256 PMd and 55 to 93 M1 neurons were isolated in Monkey C and 66 to 121 PMd and 26 to 51 M1 neurons in Monkey M; neurons above 5 Hz, pooled over all CF and VR sessions, number 918 in M1 and 2221 in PMd.",
     "source": "STAR Methods, Neural recordings, paragraph 2",
     "quote": "Across all sessions, we isolated between 137 - 256 PMd and 55 - 93 M1 neurons for Monkey C, and 66 - 121 PMd and 26 - 51 M1 neurons for Monkey M ... Pooled across all monkeys and CF and VR sessions, this gave a population of 918 M1 and 2221 PMd neurons",
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     "notes": "Measured values are over all 21 candidate sessions. Monkey M's 7 sessions give 66 to 121 PMd and 26 to 52 M1 units, inside the widened ranges. 13 of 14 Monkey C candidates are inside (PMd 137 to 258, M1 55 to 95); C 2016-09-29 has 114 PMd units, below the lower bound of 123.3. The ranges hold for 715 of the 2002 choices of 9 Monkey C sessions, those without C 2016-09-29, which is the assumption the outcome rests on. The pooled counts above 5 Hz hold under no choice of 9 Monkey C sessions with the 7 Monkey M sessions (at most 634 M1 and 1224 PMd against 918 and 2221); all 21 sessions give 835 M1 (within 10%) and 1565 PMd (outside). Rates over all trials of a file change the counts by at most 10. Monkey M has 6 to 21 PMd units above 5 Hz per session. The pooled verdicts of the first table in the notebook are for each whole set (21 or 19 sessions); the test on 16 sessions is the second cell.",
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      "The paper's 16 sessions cannot be identified. All 21 dual-array center-out sessions of Monkeys C (2016-09-09 to 2016-10-21) and M (2014-02-03 to 2014-03-07) are used, and the 19 whose reward counts fit the paper's Baseline range (154 to 225) are shown as a second set. All reward trials of each file are taken as Baseline.",
      "The 5 Hz rule uses the trials in the file (Baseline only), from start to stop of each reward trial; all trials are shown as a variant. The paper's rate is over the whole session (claims file criterion).",
      "The paper excluded cells with high coincidence across channels; the units are counted as deposited."
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     "claim": "fig3b-pmd-higher-dimensional",
     "statement": "In every session the PMd manifold had more dimensions than the M1 manifold (median 14 against 8.5).",
     "source": "Results, Models to study adaptation-related changes ..., paragraph 3; Figure 3B",
     "quote": "In all sessions, the PMd manifold contained more dimensions than did the M1 manifold ... M1 median, 8.5; PMd median, 14",
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     "notes": "Over all 21 sessions, under rule (b), window (a), the noise of the trial average and a kernel of 100 ms standard deviation, the medians are 7 (M1) and 10 (PMd), outside the tolerance of 8.5 and 14, and PMd exceeds M1 in 21 of 21 sessions (19 of 19 in the second set, medians 7 and 11). Over the 2002 choices of 16 sessions (9 of the 14 Monkey C candidates with the 7 Monkey M sessions) the medians are 7 to 7.5 and 10 to 11, outside tolerance in every choice, with PMd above M1 in every session in all 2002; the closest session is M 2014-03-03 (PMd 9, M1 8). By monkey C has medians 7 and 10, M 7 and 11. Under this kernel no reading meets the criterion in full; window (b) gives PMd above M1 in 20 of 21, rule (a) in 19 and 18 of 21 with medians of 26 to 47 (M1) and 46 to 78 (PMd). With a kernel of 100 ms full width at half maximum the medians are 9 and 13 over 21 sessions, within tolerance in 910 of the 2002 choices, which would be reproduced. On synthetic rank-5 data rule (b) with the adopted noise scale returns 5 in 9 of 9 runs and rule (a) 16 to 45. Raw or root-two noise gives 0 dimensions in every session. The outcome was reproduced (full-width reading) through round 2 and changed in round 3, when the verifier agreed with the proposed change.",
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      "The paper's 16 sessions cannot be identified. All 21 dual-array center-out sessions of Monkeys C (2016-09-09 to 2016-10-21) and M (2014-02-03 to 2014-03-07) are used, and the 19 whose reward counts fit the paper's Baseline range (154 to 225) are shown as a second set, with every choice of 16 sessions. All reward trials of each file are taken as Baseline.",
      "Target acquisition (window a, the claims file's O3) is the trial's stop time minus the 0.5 s target hold, from STAR Methods, Behavioral task (\"required to hold there for 0.5 s\"); the cursor cannot be used, as in several sessions it never enters the stored target square.",
      "Assumed that the noise eigenvalues are scaled to the noise of a trial average (the difference of two trials divided by the square root of 2K, K the mean number of trials per target). STAR Methods, Dimensionality reduction, says only that the activity of random pairs of trials was subtracted; taken as it is, or divided by the square root of two, the noise exceeds every component of the trial-averaged data and every estimate is 0, which cannot give the paper's medians. All three scalings are shown. The choice was made after the raw and root-two scales gave 0; a synthetic check of known rank (notebook) shows rule (b) with this scale recovers the rank, but the raw and root-two scales also recover it there, so the check does not choose between the scales; the choice rests on the other scales giving 0 on the real data.",
      "The outcome depends on the kernel width, which the claims file expected not to matter (O4). Assumed a standard deviation of 100 ms for every claim, as the usual way a Gaussian smoothing kernel's width is stated and the way the same group states it in a later paper on Monkey C recordings (\"a Gaussian kernel (s.d. 50 ms)\", Gallego, Perich et al. 2020, Nat. Neurosci.). STAR Methods, Dimensionality reduction, says only \"a non-causal Gaussian kernel of width 100 ms\". With a full width at half maximum of 100 ms the medians are within tolerance and the claim would be reproduced, while fig6c-null-leads-potent would be not reproduced; neither reading favours every claim. The claims file's header says a claim whose open-detail readings disagree is blocked as methods_underspecified; the protocol (author, step 1.6) instead lets the author adopt the best-supported reading as an assumption, and that rule is followed.",
      "Trials of unequal length are aligned on the window start and cut to the session's shortest window before averaging per target; the paper does not say how they were averaged (a standard choice).",
      "All units of each area are used; the paper does not say whether a rate threshold applies here."
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     "claim": "figs4d-dimensionality-robust-to-size",
     "statement": "With random subsamples of equal, fixed numbers of neurons, estimated dimensionality fell for small samples but PMd stayed higher-dimensional than M1 for every neuron count tested.",
     "source": "Figure S4D legend; STAR Methods, Dimensionality reduction, paragraph 2",
     "quote": "With decreasing neuron counts, we began to underestimate the apparent dimensionality. However, critically, PMd (red) was consistently higher dimensional than M1 (black) for all tested neuron counts",
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     "notes": "Under rule (b) the mean PMd dimensionality exceeds the mean M1 at 40, 50, 60, 70 and all neurons under both kernels, both windows and both session sets, by 1.30 to 4.63 (full-width kernel, window a, 1.88 at 40 and 4.52 with all neurons; standard-deviation kernel, window a, 1.62 and 3.48). Paired by session, PMd is higher in every session at every size except one session with all neurons in window (b) under both kernels (20 of 21) and one at 40 neurons with the full-width kernel in window (b) (16 of 17). Rule (a) gives PMd above M1 at every size except 40 neurons with the full-width kernel in window (b) (-0.13 and -0.30). The PMd mean falls at small sizes (window a, full-width kernel, 13.05 with all neurons and 9.90 at 40). The M1 mean does not fall consistently (window a, full-width kernel, 8.52 with all, 8.53 and 8.65 at 60 and 70, 8.03 at 40; window b, full-width kernel, 6.52 with all and 6.74 at 40), so the statement's fall is shown for PMd only, outside the criterion. The M1 means at 40 neurons cover 17 sessions, against 21 for all neurons. M1 sizes of 50 to 70 rest on 11 to 15 sessions, as Monkey M has 26 to 52 M1 units.",
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      "The paper's 16 sessions cannot be identified. All 21 dual-array center-out sessions of Monkeys C (2016-09-09 to 2016-10-21) and M (2014-02-03 to 2014-03-07) are used, and the 19 whose reward counts fit the paper's Baseline range (154 to 225) are shown as a second set. All reward trials of each file are taken as Baseline.",
      "Assumed that the noise eigenvalues are scaled to the noise of a trial average (the difference of two trials divided by the square root of 2K, K the mean number of trials per target). STAR Methods, Dimensionality reduction, says only that the activity of random pairs of trials was subtracted; taken as it is, or divided by the square root of two, the noise exceeds every component of the trial-averaged data and every estimate is 0, which cannot give the paper's medians. All three scalings are shown.",
      "100 subsamples per size (the claims file's standard choice) with 100 noise repetitions per subsample, to fit the time limit; the paper's 1000 noise repetitions are kept for all neurons.",
      "Run with both kernel readings (standard deviation and full width at half maximum of 100 ms) in windows (a) and (b)."
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     "claim": "figs4c-null-potent-index-centered",
     "statement": "Single neurons contributed to both output-potent and output-null subspaces; the null/potent index was centered on zero with virtually no neurons near -1 or 1.",
     "source": "Figure S4C legend; STAR Methods, Output-potent and output-null subspaces, paragraph 3",
     "quote": "The distribution of neurons was centered around zero and virtually no neurons had a null/potent index close to -1 / 1, indicating that the output-potent and output-null subspaces captured population-wide features",
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     "notes": "Over 3263 PMd units of 21 sessions, with absolute values, the mean index is 0.017 to 0.056 across the window and kernel readings and no unit exceeds 0.9 in absolute value (range -0.701 to 0.741). With sums of squares three of four readings meet the criterion; window (a) with the full-width kernel gives a mean of 0.100085, just above 0.1, with 0.09% of units above 0.9. The shuffled control has mean 0.036, standard deviation 0.483 (data 0.217) and 3.2% of units above 0.9. The index leans positive in Monkey M, whose 599 units have a mean of 0.109 under the main reading (above 0.1 if judged alone; session means 0.081 to 0.143), against 0.028 for the 2664 Monkey C units (session means -0.007 to 0.081).",
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      "The paper's 16 sessions cannot be identified. All 21 dual-array center-out sessions of Monkeys C (2016-09-09 to 2016-10-21) and M (2014-02-03 to 2014-03-07) are used, and the 19 whose reward counts fit the paper's Baseline range (154 to 225) are shown as a second set. All reward trials of each file are taken as Baseline.",
      "Target acquisition (window a, the claims file's O3) is the trial's stop time minus the 0.5 s target hold, from STAR Methods, Behavioral task (\"required to hold there for 0.5 s\"); the cursor cannot be used, as in several sessions it never enters the stored target square.",
      "The readings of magnitude disagree in one of eight cases; the sum of absolute values, the claims file's first reading of \"the magnitude ... summed across all dimensions\" (STAR Methods, Output-potent and output-null subspaces), is adopted.",
      "The one failing reading (sums of squares, window a) uses the full-width kernel. Under the standard-deviation kernel, the reading adopted for every claim, all four window and magnitude readings meet the criterion."
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     "claim": "fig6c-null-leads-potent",
     "statement": "In Baseline, output-null activity preceded output-potent activity by 35 ms on average across the 16 sessions, a lag significantly below zero (t-test, p = 0.02), and output-null also led at the end of Force.",
     "source": "Figure 6B and 6C (legend's first \"d\"); Results, Evolving changes in PMd output-null planning activity ..., paragraph 1",
     "quote": "Output-null activity preceded output-potent by 35 ms on average, and the distribution was significantly negative (t-test; p = 0.02)",
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     "notes": "Over the 21 candidate sessions the mean Baseline lag is negative under all 8 readings (-2.4 to -51.4 ms). It is significantly negative only with window (a) and the 100 ms standard-deviation kernel, at -18.1 ms (t = -2.29, p = 0.033, 10 ms resolution) and -51.4 ms (p = 0.035, interpolated 50 ms activity); in the latter two sessions peak within one step of the edge of the search (C 2016-10-06 at -350 ms, C 2016-10-11 at -340 ms), and without them the mean is -20.5 ms over 19 sessions (p = 0.034). The full-width kernel and window (b) readings give p from 0.18 to 0.82. No reading over 21 sessions is within 3.5 ms of -35 ms. Over the 2002 choices of 16 sessions (9 of the 14 Monkey C candidates with the 7 Monkey M sessions) the main reading is significantly negative in 763 (38%), the 50 ms reading in 478 (816 with edge maxima dropped), and at least one of the 8 readings in 1013 (51%; 1052 with edge maxima dropped); 12 choices, all with edge maxima dropped at 50 ms resolution, give a significant mean within tolerance of -35 ms. The 19-session set gives p = 0.040 for the main reading. By monkey, -22.9 ms (C) and -8.6 ms (M). The end-of-Force part of the statement cannot be tested, as no Force trials are in the dandiset; the outcome follows the criterion's partial rule on the 21 candidates (significantly negative under one reading, outside tolerance) and holds for about half of the possible 16-session sets.",
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      "The paper's 16 sessions cannot be identified. All 21 dual-array center-out sessions of Monkeys C (2016-09-09 to 2016-10-21) and M (2014-02-03 to 2014-03-07) are used, and the 19 whose reward counts fit the paper's Baseline range (154 to 225) are shown as a second set. All reward trials of each file are taken as Baseline.",
      "The t-test is run over all 21 candidate sessions, a superset of the paper's 16, which the outcome rests on; the same test on every choice of 16 sessions is shown.",
      "Target acquisition (window a, the claims file's O3) is the trial's stop time minus the 0.5 s target hold, from STAR Methods, Behavioral task (\"required to hold there for 0.5 s\"); the cursor cannot be used, as in several sessions it never enters the stored target square.",
      "The outcome depends on the kernel width, which the claims file expected not to matter (O4). Significance holds with a standard deviation of 100 ms and not with a full width at half maximum of 100 ms (p 0.18 to 0.38), which would make it not reproduced. The claims file's header says a claim whose open-detail readings disagree is blocked as methods_underspecified; the protocol (author, step 1.6) lets the author adopt the best-supported reading as an assumption, and that rule is followed. The standard deviation is adopted for every claim, as the usual way a Gaussian kernel's width is stated and the form the same group used later on Monkey C recordings (\"s.d. 50 ms\", Gallego, Perich et al. 2020). Under it fig3b-pmd-higher-dimensional is partially reproduced.",
      "The lag sign follows the Figure 6B legend (a peak left of zero means output-null leads).",
      "A maximum within one step of the edge of the lag search (340 or 350 ms) is flagged and the test is shown with such sessions kept and dropped; the paper does not say how edge maxima were treated."
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     "claim": "fig2d-cf-behavioral-adaptation",
     "statement": "On exposure to the curl field the monkeys made large reach direction errors that shrank gradually until behavior stabilized, and mirror-image after-effects appeared at the start of Washout.",
     "source": "Results, Curl field adaptation involves widespread ..., paragraph 1; Figure 2C and 2D",
     "quote": "Within each session, the monkeys exhibited large errors upon exposure to the CF, which were gradually reduced until behavior stabilized ... Further evidence of adaptation was revealed by behavioral after-effects (mirror image errors) that occurred upon return to normal reaching during the Washout epoch",
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     "notes": "Needs the Force and Washout trials of the curl field sessions. The dandiset holds only the Baseline epoch of the dual-array center-out sessions (about 200 reward trials each, with no perturbation block in the reach errors) and no label of a session as curl field or visuomotor rotation. The paper says its data may be shared upon request; no other public copy is named.",
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    {
     "claim": "fig7bc-vr-behavior-similar",
     "statement": "In VR sessions behavioral errors were similar in magnitude and time course to those of CF sessions, with large initial errors in Rotation and strong after-effects in Washout.",
     "source": "Results, PMd to M1 mapping is unchanged throughout adaptation to a visuomotor rotation, paragraph 2; Figure 7B and 7C",
     "quote": "In many respects, adaptation during the CF and VR sessions was quite similar. Behavioral errors were similar in magnitude and time course",
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     "notes": "Needs the Rotation and Washout trials of the visuomotor rotation sessions, and the curl field Force trials. The dandiset holds only the Baseline epoch of the dual-array center-out sessions (about 200 reward trials each, with no perturbation block in the reach errors) and no label of a session as curl field or visuomotor rotation. The paper says its data may be shared upon request; no other public copy is named.",
     "deviations": [],
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     "statement": "In a representative CF session, the pairwise covariance of neurons in the Force and Washout blocks correlated with Baseline values at r of at least 0.85 in M1 and at least 0.93 in PMd.",
     "source": "Results, Models to study adaptation-related changes ..., paragraph 2; Figure S2E",
     "quote": "representative session ... Pearson's correlation with Baseline values r \u2265 0.85 for M1 and r \u2265 0.93 for PMd",
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     "notes": "Needs the Force and Washout blocks; only the Baseline split could be computed. The dandiset holds only the Baseline epoch of the dual-array center-out sessions (about 200 reward trials each, with no perturbation block in the reach errors) and no label of a session as curl field or visuomotor rotation. The paper says its data may be shared upon request; no other public copy is named.",
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    {
     "claim": "figs3a-covariance-like-baseline-split",
     "statement": "Across all CF sessions the similarity of the covariance between Baseline and the Force and Washout blocks resembled that between random subsamples of Baseline, so the covariance structure did not change with adaptation.",
     "source": "Results, Models to study adaptation-related changes ..., paragraph 2; Figure S3A",
     "quote": "Across all sessions, the differences in covariance strongly resembled those obtained from random subsamples of Baseline data for which the covariance structure should be unchanged",
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     "notes": "Needs the Force and Washout blocks to compare with the Baseline subsamples. The dandiset holds only the Baseline epoch of the dual-array center-out sessions (about 200 reward trials each, with no perturbation block in the reach errors) and no label of a session as curl field or visuomotor rotation. The paper says its data may be shared upon request; no other public copy is named.",
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     "claim": "figs3b-covariance-preserved-vr",
     "statement": "In VR sessions as well, the changes in neural activity preserved the population covariance structure.",
     "source": "Results, PMd to M1 mapping is unchanged throughout adaptation to a visuomotor rotation, paragraph 2; Figure S3B (the Results cite it as Figure S2B, which shows CF example neurons; the VR covariance summary is Figure S3B)",
     "quote": "Additionally, changes in neural activity preserved the population covariance structure",
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     "notes": "Needs the Rotation and Washout blocks of the visuomotor rotation sessions. The dandiset holds only the Baseline epoch of the dual-array center-out sessions (about 200 reward trials each, with no perturbation block in the reach errors) and no label of a session as curl field or visuomotor rotation. The paper says its data may be shared upon request; no other public copy is named.",
     "deviations": [],
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    {
     "claim": "figs5e-glm-cell-counts",
     "statement": "In the CF sessions pooled, the number of M1 or PMd neurons with significant GLM fits was 214 for M1-M1, 338 for PMd-PMd, 170 for PC-M1, 144 for Pot-M1 and 97 for Null-M1; the Basic model was significant for 522 of 918 M1 and 612 of 2221 PMd neurons.",
     "source": "Figures 3C and S5E (cell counts in the panels); STAR Methods, Selecting cells with significant GLM predictions",
     "quote": "This reduced the pool of candidate cells to 522 of 918 (57%) in M1 and 612 of 2221 (28%) in PMd",
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     "notebook": null,
     "notes": "The models are trained on the last half of Force, which is not in the dandiset. The dandiset holds only the Baseline epoch of the dual-array center-out sessions (about 200 reward trials each, with no perturbation block in the reach errors) and no label of a session as curl field or visuomotor rotation. The paper says its data may be shared upon request; no other public copy is named.",
     "deviations": [],
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     "claim": "figs5e-pot-null-similar-training",
     "statement": "Pot-M1 and Null-M1 had similar cross-validated accuracy within the end-of-Force training trials.",
     "source": "Results, Output-potent activity in PMd consistently predicts M1 neurons ..., paragraph 2; Figure S5E",
     "quote": "Both models had similar accuracy when evaluated within the end-of-Force training trials using ten-fold crossvalidation",
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     "source": "Figure 3E (p-values in the panel); Results, Curl field adaptation is not associated ..., paragraph 2",
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     "source": "Figure 3G (legend \"No effects were significant (two-sample t-test)\"); Results, Curl field adaptation is not associated ..., paragraph 2",
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