scholarly journals The neuronal organization of a unique cerebellar specialization: The valvula cerebelli of a mormyrid fish

2008 ◽  
Vol 509 (6) ◽  
pp. spc1-spc1
Author(s):  
Zhigang Shi ◽  
Yueping Zhang ◽  
Johannes Meek ◽  
Jiantian Qiao ◽  
Victor Z. Han
2008 ◽  
Vol 509 (5) ◽  
pp. 449-473 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zhigang Shi ◽  
Yueping Zhang ◽  
Johannes Meek ◽  
Jiantian Qiao ◽  
Victor Z. Han

1974 ◽  
Vol 144 (3) ◽  
pp. 315-336 ◽  
Author(s):  
R. Nieuwenhuys ◽  
E. Pouwels ◽  
E. Smulders-Kersten

2008 ◽  
Vol 509 (5) ◽  
pp. spc1-spc1
Author(s):  
Zhigang Shi ◽  
Yueping Zhang ◽  
Johannes Meek ◽  
Jiantian Qiao ◽  
Victor Z. Han

2014 ◽  
Vol 112 (2) ◽  
pp. 328-339 ◽  
Author(s):  
Karina Alviña ◽  
Nathaniel B. Sawtell

Although it has been suggested that the cerebellum functions to predict the sensory consequences of motor commands, how such predictions are implemented in cerebellar circuitry remains largely unknown. A detailed and relatively complete account of predictive mechanisms has emerged from studies of cerebellum-like sensory structures in fish, suggesting that comparisons of the cerebellum and cerebellum-like structures may be useful. Here we characterize electrophysiological response properties of Purkinje cells in a region of the cerebellum proper of weakly electric mormyrid fish, the posterior caudal lobe (LCp), which receives the same mossy fiber inputs and projects to the same target structures as the electrosensory lobe (ELL), a well-studied cerebellum-like structure. We describe patterns of simple spike and climbing fiber activation in LCp Purkinje cells in response to motor corollary discharge, electrosensory, and proprioceptive inputs and provide evidence for two functionally distinct Purkinje cell subtypes within LCp. Protocols that induce rapid associative plasticity in ELL fail to induce plasticity in LCp, suggesting differences in the adaptive functions of the two structures. Similarities and differences between LCp and ELL are discussed in light of these results.


1988 ◽  
pp. 61-69 ◽  
Author(s):  
V. V. Fanardjian ◽  
V. L. Gorodnov

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