Beyond "all-or-nothing" climbing fibers: Graded representation of teaching signals in Purkinje cells

Frontiers in Neural Circuits

Volumn , Issue JUL, 2013, Pages

  Najafi, Farzaneh ^a   Medina, Javier F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Calcium; Cerebellum; Complex spike; Dendrite; Ltd; Mossy fiber; Motor learning

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; INFERIOR OLIVE; NERVE CELL MEMBRANE POTENTIAL; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NERVE PROJECTION; NEUROMODULATION; POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIAL; PURKINJE CELL; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION;

EID: 84879914860     PISSN: 16625110     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fncir.2013.00115     Document Type: Article

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