Emergence of Distinct Neural Subspaces in Motor Cortical Dynamics during Volitional Adjustments of Ongoing Locomotion

This work was sponsored in part by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) BTO under the auspices of Dr. Doug Weber and Alfred Emondi through the Space and Naval Warfare Systems Center Pacific or DARPA Contracts Management Office, Grant/Contract No. D15AP00112 (to D.A.B.); and by Merit Review Award #I01RX002835 from the US Department of Veterans Affairs, Rehabilitation Research and Development Service (to D.A.B.). The contents of this manuscript do not represent the views of the Veterans Administration or the United States Government. The Department of Veterans Affairs did not provide any direct support for the animal work conducted for this project. We thank Ellen Xing for contributing to the creation of Figure 1 and Figure 2. We also thank the Pablo J. Salame Goldman Sachs endowed Associate Professorship of Computational Neuroscience at Brown University (to W.T.); and the Howard Reisman '76 Family Graduate Fellowship Fund, and the Charles A. Dana Graduate Fellowship Fund (to D.X.). These funding sources had no involvement in the design of this study, the collection or analysis of data, or the authorship of this manuscript.