The Brain ‘Rotates’ Memories to Save Them From New Sensations

This use of orthogonal coding to separate and protect information in the brain has been seen before. For instance, when monkeys are preparing to move, neural activity in their motor cortex represents the potential movement but does so orthogonally to avoid interfering with signals driving actual commands to the muscles. Still, it often hasn’t been […]

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