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ReviewFrontiers in neural circuits2013

Role of the olivo-cerebellar complex in motor learning and control.

Nicolas Schweighofer, Eric J Lang, Mitsuo Kawato

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Review in Frontiers in neural circuits, 2013. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 25 papers.

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

25 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Representations of Subsecond Duration-Based Timing by Complex Spike Synchrony in Cerebellar Purkinje Neurons.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2026
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  16. Sox14 Is Required for a Specific Subset of Cerebello-Olivary Projections.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2018
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  20. The ever-changing electrical synapse.Current opinion in neurobiology · 2014
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Nicolas SchweighoferDivision of Biokinesiology and Physical Therapy, University of Southern California Los Angeles, CA, USA ; Movement to Health Laboratory, Montpellier-1 University Montpellier, France.
Eric J Lang
Mitsuo Kawato

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

How is the cerebellum capable of efficient motor learning and control despite very low firing of the inferior olive (IO) inputs, which are postulated to carry errors needed for learning and contribute to on-line motor control? IO neurons form the largest electrically coupled network in the adult human brain. Here, we discuss how intermediate coupling strengths can lead to chaotic resonance and increase information transmission of the error signal despite the very low IO firing rate. This increased information transmission can then lead to more efficient learning than with weak or strong coupling. In addition, we argue that a dynamic modulation of IO electrical coupling via the Purkinje cell-deep cerebellar neurons - IO triangle could speed up learning and improve on-line control. Initially strong coupling would allow transmission of large errors to multiple functionally related Purkinje cells, resulting in fast but coarse learning as well as significant effects on deep cerebellar nucleus and on-line motor control. In the late phase of learning decreased coupling would allow desynchronized IO firing, allowing high-fidelity transmission of error, resulting in slower but fine learning, and little on-line motor control effects.

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Action PotentialsAnimalsCerebellumHumansLearningMotor ActivityNeural PathwaysOlivary NucleusPurkinje Cellscerebellumcomplex spikesdeep cerebellar nucleuselectrical couplinginferior olivemotor learningPurkinje cellssynchrony

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PMID23754983
PMCPMC3664774

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