The detection and generation of sequences as a key to cerebellar function: Experiments and theory

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作者
Braitenberg, V
Heck, D
Sultan, F
机构
[1] UNIV FREIBURG,INST BIOL 3 NEUROBIOL & BIOPHYS,D-79104 FREIBURG,GERMANY
[2] UNIV TUBINGEN,SEKT VISUELLE SENSOMOTOR,NEUROL KLIN,D-72076 TUBINGEN,GERMANY
关键词
allometric relation; cerebellum; cerebrocerebellar interaction; motor control; parallel fibers; sequence addressable memory; spatiotemporal activity; synchronicity;
D O I
10.1017/S0140525X9700143X
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B84 [心理学];
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04 ; 0402 ;
摘要
Starting from macroscopic and microscopic facts of cerebellar histology, we propose a new functional interpretation that may elucidate the role of the cerebellum in movement control. The idea is that the cerebellum is a large collection of individual lines (Eccles's ''beams'': Eccles et al. 1967a) that respond specifically to certain sequences of events in the input and in turn produce sequences of signals in the output. We believe that the sequence-in/sequence-out mode of operation is as typical for the cerebellar cortex as the transformation of sets into sets of active neurons is typical for the cerebral cortex, and that both the histological differences between the two and their reciprocal functional interactions become understandable in the light of this dichotomy. The response of Purkinje cells to sequences of stimuli in the mossy fiber system was shown experimentally by Heck on surviving ''movement'' of the stimuli along the folium, produces a powerful volley in the parallel fibers that strongly excites Purkinje cells, as evidenced by intracellular recording. The volley, or ''tidal wave,'' has maximal amplitude when the stimulus moves toward the succession of stimuli has no effect when they ''move'' in the opposite direction. Synchronous activation of the stimulus electrodes also had hardly any effect. We believe that the sequences of mossy fiber activation that normally produce this effect in the intact cerebellum are a combination of motor planning relayed to the cerebellum by the cerebral cortex, and information about ongoing movement, reaching the cerebellum from the spinal cord. The output elicited by the specific sequence to which a ''beam'' is tuned may well be a succession of well timed inhibitory volleys ''sculpting'' the motor sequences so as to adapt them to the complicated requirements of the physics of a multijointed system.
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