Number of spikes in climbing fibers determines the direction of cerebellar learning

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 33, Issue 33, 2013, Pages 13436-13440

  Rasmussen, Anders ^a   Jirenhed, Dan Anders ^a   Zucca, Riccardo ^a,b   Johansson, Fredrik ^a   Svensson, Pär ^a   Hesslow, Germund ^a  

^a LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b UNIVERSITAT POMPEU FABRA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CEREBELLAR MOSSY FIBER; CLIMBING FIBER; CONDITIONING; EXCITATORY POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIAL; FERRET; INFERIOR CEREBELLAR PEDUNCLE; INTRACELLULAR RECORDING; LEARNING; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PURKINJE CELL; SPIKE; STIMULATION; STIMULUS RESPONSE; SUPERIOR COLLICULUS; TRAINING;

ANIMALS; CEREBELLUM; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; EXTINCTION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; FERRETS; LEARNING; MALE; NERVE FIBERS; PURKINJE CELLS;

EID: 84881503310     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 15292401     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.1527-13.2013     Document Type: Article

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