Professor Zhang's findings provide transformative insights into our understanding of how spatial information is processed and integrated into the brain, as well as functional operations of the somatosensory cortex in the context of rehabilitation with brain-machine interfaces.

Dr. Si Bailu, a professor in School of Systems Science at Beijing Normal University, believes that the finding from Professor Zhang's lab has opened up another frontier in systems neuroscience. This work is expected to provide new therapeutic targets for research and treatment of some neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer's disease, as well as significant inspirations for interdisciplinary fields such as brain-computer interaction.