Neocortex–cerebellum circuits for cognitive processing

MJ Wagner, L Luo - Trends in neurosciences, 2020 - cell.com
Although classically thought of as a motor circuit, the cerebellum is now understood to
contribute to a wide variety of cognitive functions through its dense interconnections with the …

Neuronal ensembles: Building blocks of neural circuits

R Yuste, R Cossart, E Yaksi - Neuron, 2024 - cell.com
Neuronal ensembles, defined as groups of neurons displaying recurring patterns of
coordinated activity, represent an intermediate functional level between individual neurons …

Predictive and reactive reward signals conveyed by climbing fiber inputs to cerebellar Purkinje cells

D Kostadinov, M Beau, M Blanco-Pozo… - Nature neuroscience, 2019 - nature.com
There is increasing evidence for a cerebellar contribution to cognitive processing, but the
specific input pathways conveying this information remain unclear. We probed the role of …

Shared cortex-cerebellum dynamics in the execution and learning of a motor task

MJ Wagner, TH Kim, J Kadmon, ND Nguyen, S Ganguli… - Cell, 2019 - cell.com
Throughout mammalian neocortex, layer 5 pyramidal (L5) cells project via the pons to a vast
number of cerebellar granule cells (GrCs), forming a fundamental pathway. Yet, it is …

Evolving models of pavlovian conditioning: cerebellar cortical dynamics in awake behaving mice

MM Ten Brinke, HJ Boele, JK Spanke, JW Potters… - Cell reports, 2015 - cell.com
Three decades of electrophysiological research on cerebellar cortical activity underlying
Pavlovian conditioning have expanded our understanding of motor learning in the brain …

[HTML][HTML] Somatosensory cortex plays an essential role in forelimb motor adaptation in mice

MW Mathis, A Mathis, N Uchida - Neuron, 2017 - cell.com
Our motor outputs are constantly re-calibrated to adapt to systematic perturbations. This
motor adaptation is thought to depend on the ability to form a memory of a systematic …

A neural circuit state change underlying skilled movements

MJ Wagner, J Savall, O Hernandez, G Mel, H Inan… - Cell, 2021 - cell.com
In motor neuroscience, state changes are hypothesized to time-lock neural assemblies
coordinating complex movements, but evidence for this remains slender. We tested whether …

A quantitative framework for whole-body coordination reveals specific deficits in freely walking ataxic mice

AS Machado, DM Darmohray, J Fayad, HG Marques… - elife, 2015 - elifesciences.org
The coordination of movement across the body is a fundamental, yet poorly understood
aspect of motor control. Mutant mice with cerebellar circuit defects exhibit characteristic …

Cerebellar control of reach kinematics for endpoint precision

MI Becker, AL Person - Neuron, 2019 - cell.com
The cerebellum is well appreciated to impart speed, smoothness, and precision to skilled
movements such as reaching. How these functions are executed by the final output stage of …

Cerebellar oscillations driven by synaptic pruning deficits of cerebellar climbing fibers contribute to tremor pathophysiology

MK Pan, YS Li, SB Wong, CL Ni, YM Wang… - Science translational …, 2020 - science.org
Essential tremor (ET) is one of the most common movement disorders and the prototypical
disorder for abnormal rhythmic movements. However, the pathophysiology of tremor …