ArticleNeuron2021
Action-based organization of a cerebellar module specialized for predictive control of multiple body parts.
Article in Neuron, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 14 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
What it found
Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.
The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.
The trial behind it
Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.
Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.
Who cites it
14 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 35 citations in OpenAlex.
- A Systematic Review of Direct Outputs from the Cerebellum to the Brainstem and Diencephalon in Mammals.Cerebellum (London, England) · 2024Pooled it
- Critical period plasticity enables credit assignment.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2026Article
- Stimulus Contingency and Task Context Encoding within the Anterior Cingulate-Amygdala-Cerebellum Associative Learning Network.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2025Article
- Cerebellar circuit computations for predictive motor control.Nature reviews. Neuroscience · 2025Review
- Article
- Cerebellar Purkinje Cells Control Posture in Larval Zebrafish (bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2024Article
- Cerebellar Functions Beyond Movement and Learning.Annual review of neuroscience · 2024Review
- Dynamic Changes in Local Activity and Network Interactions among the Anterior Cingulate, Amygdala, and Cerebellum during Associative Learning.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2023Article
- Synaptic mechanisms for associative learning in the cerebellar nuclei.Nature communications · 2023Article
- Synaptic variance and action potential firing of cerebellar output neurons during motor learning in larval zebrafish.Current biology : CB · 2023Article
- Cerebellar contributions to fear-based emotional processing: relevance to understanding the neural circuits involved in autism.Frontiers in systems neuroscience · 2023Review
- Natural product-based pharmacological studies for neurological disorders.Frontiers in pharmacology · 2022Review
- Recent Advances in the Understanding of Specific Efferent Pathways Emerging From the Cerebellum.Frontiers in neuroanatomy · 2021Review
- Concurrent optogenetic motor mapping of multiple limbs in awake mice reveals cortical organization of coordinated movements.Brain stimulationArticle
Corrections and comments
PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.
Authors and funding
3 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.
Funding
Abstract
The role of the cerebellum in predictive motor control and coordination has been thoroughly studied during movements of a single body part. In the real world, however, actions are often more complex. Here, we show that a small area in the rostral anterior interpositus nucleus (rAIN) of the mouse cerebellum is responsible for generating a predictive motor synergy that serves to protect the eye by precisely coordinating muscles of the eyelid, neck, and forelimb. Within the rAIN region, we discovered a new functional category of neurons with unique properties specialized for control of motor synergies. These neurons integrated inhibitory cutaneous inputs from multiple parts of the body, and their activity was correlated with the vigor of the defensive motor synergy on a trial-by-trial basis. We propose that some regions of the cerebellum are organized in poly-somatotopic "action maps" to reduce dimensionality and simplify motor control during ethologically relevant behaviors.
Indexed as
Identifiers
What OpenQuestion holds
Registered trials
Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.