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Popa LS, Hewitt AL, Ebner TJ. The cerebellum for jocks and nerds alike. Front Syst Neurosci. 2014;8:113doi: 10.3389/fnsys.2014.00113.
Popa, L. S., Hewitt, A. L., & Ebner, T. J. (2014). The cerebellum for jocks and nerds alike. Frontiers in systems neuroscience, 8113. https://doi.org/10.3389/fnsys.2014.00113
Popa, Laurentiu S, et al. "The cerebellum for jocks and nerds alike." Frontiers in systems neuroscience vol. 8 (2014): 113. doi: https://doi.org/10.3389/fnsys.2014.00113
Popa LS, Hewitt AL, Ebner TJ. The cerebellum for jocks and nerds alike. Front Syst Neurosci. 2014 Jun 17;8:113. doi: 10.3389/fnsys.2014.00113. eCollection 2014. PMID: 24987338; PMCID: PMC4060457.
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Front Syst Neurosci. 2014 Jun 17;8:113. doi: 10.3389/fnsys.2014.00113. eCollection 2014.

The cerebellum for jocks and nerds alike.

Frontiers in systems neuroscience

Laurentiu S Popa, Angela L Hewitt, Timothy J Ebner

Affiliations

  1. Department of Neuroscience, University of Minnesota Minneapolis, MN, USA.

PMID: 24987338 PMCID: PMC4060457 DOI: 10.3389/fnsys.2014.00113

Abstract

Historically the cerebellum has been implicated in the control of movement. However, the cerebellum's role in non-motor functions, including cognitive and emotional processes, has also received increasing attention. Starting from the premise that the uniform architecture of the cerebellum underlies a common mode of information processing, this review examines recent electrophysiological findings on the motor signals encoded in the cerebellar cortex and then relates these signals to observations in the non-motor domain. Simple spike firing of individual Purkinje cells encodes performance errors, both predicting upcoming errors as well as providing feedback about those errors. Further, this dual temporal encoding of prediction and feedback involves a change in the sign of the simple spike modulation. Therefore, Purkinje cell simple spike firing both predicts and responds to feedback about a specific parameter, consistent with computing sensory prediction errors in which the predictions about the consequences of a motor command are compared with the feedback resulting from the motor command execution. These new findings are in contrast with the historical view that complex spikes encode errors. Evaluation of the kinematic coding in the simple spike discharge shows the same dual temporal encoding, suggesting this is a common mode of signal processing in the cerebellar cortex. Decoding analyses show the considerable accuracy of the predictions provided by Purkinje cells across a range of times. Further, individual Purkinje cells encode linearly and independently a multitude of signals, both kinematic and performance errors. Therefore, the cerebellar cortex's capacity to make associations across different sensory, motor and non-motor signals is large. The results from studying how Purkinje cells encode movement signals suggest that the cerebellar cortex circuitry can support associative learning, sequencing, working memory, and forward internal models in non-motor domains.

Keywords: Purkinje cells; cognition; internal models; performance errors; sensory prediction errors

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