highly significantp < 0.0001
Thus, during the transition from pole to brain control in task 1, the average correlated firing between pairs of cortical neurons, measured in terms of correlation coefficient (mean ± SEM), increased from 0.02 ± 1 × 10 −4 to 0.06 ± 2 × 10 −4 , a 3-fold rise that was highly significant (Wilcoxon signed rank test, p < 0.0001).