The advantages of linear information processing for cerebellar computation

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 106, Issue 11, 2009, Pages 4471-4476

  Walter, Joy T ^a   Khodakhah, Kamran ^a  

^a ALBERT EINSTEIN COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Cerebellum; Motor learning; Purkinje cell

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CEREBELLUM NUCLEUS; LEARNING ALGORITHM; NERVE CELL; NONHUMAN; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PURKINJE CELL; RAT; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION; THEORY; WISTAR RAT;

ALGORITHMS; ANIMALS; AUTOMATIC DATA PROCESSING; CEREBELLUM; INHIBITORY POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIALS; KINETICS; LEARNING; PURKINJE CELLS; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION;

EID: 63149177833     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0812348106     Document Type: Article

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