Cerebellar Synaptic Plasticity and the Credit Assignment Problem

Cerebellum

Volumn 15, Issue 2, 2016, Pages 104-111

  Jörntell, Henrik ^a  

^a LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Golgi cells; Granule cells; Interneurons; Mossy fibers; Purkinje cells; Synaptic plasticity

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIOR CHANGE; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN FUNCTION; CELL FUNCTION; CEREBELLAR MOSSY FIBER; CEREBELLUM; GRANULE CELL; LONG TERM DEPRESSION; LONG TERM POTENTIATION; MOTOR CONTROL; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SENSORIMOTOR FUNCTION; SYNAPSE; ANIMAL; HUMAN; INTERNEURON; LEARNING; PHYSIOLOGY;

ANIMALS; CEREBELLUM; HUMANS; INTERNEURONS; LEARNING; LONG-TERM POTENTIATION; NEURONAL PLASTICITY; SYNAPSES;

EID: 84959501367     PISSN: 14734222     EISSN: 14734230     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12311-014-0623-y     Document Type: Review

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