Describing a putative corollary discharge circuit in Drosophila

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kaitlyn Nicole Boone
Keyword(s):  
Corollary Discharge ◽  
Discharge Circuit

Influence of the discharge circuit inductance on output characteristics of a CuBr laser

2013 ◽  
Vol 26 (6) ◽  
pp. 559-564 ◽  
Author(s):  
F. A. Gubarev ◽  
M. V. Trigub ◽  
G. S. Evtushenko ◽  
K. V. Fedorov
Keyword(s):  
Discharge Circuit ◽  
Output Characteristics

scholarly journals Sensory processing and corollary discharge effects in posterior caudal lobe Purkinje cells in a weakly electric mormyrid fish

2014 ◽  
Vol 112 (2) ◽  
pp. 328-339 ◽  
Author(s):  
Karina Alviña ◽  
Nathaniel B. Sawtell
Keyword(s):  
Purkinje Cells ◽  
Mossy Fiber ◽  
Corollary Discharge ◽  
Electrophysiological Response ◽  
Caudal Lobe ◽  
Mormyrid Fish ◽  
Sensory Structures ◽  
Proprioceptive Inputs ◽  
Weakly Electric ◽  
Complete Account

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.

Sensory coding and corollary discharge effects in mormyrid electric fish

1989 ◽  
Vol 146 (1) ◽  
pp. 229-253 ◽  
Author(s):  
C. C. Bell
Keyword(s):  
Electric Fish ◽  
Spatial Information ◽  
Electric Organ Discharge ◽  
Low Frequency ◽  
Electric Organ ◽  
Motor Command ◽  
Corollary Discharge ◽  
Weakly Electric Fish ◽  
Central Projection ◽  
Sensory Coding

Weakly electric fish use their electrosensory systems for electrocommunication, active electrolocation and low-frequency passive electrolocation. In electric fish of the family Mormyridae, these three purposes are mediated by separate classes of electroreceptors: electrocommunication by Knollenorgan electroreceptors, active electrolocation by Mormyromast electroreceptors and low-frequency passive electrolocation by ampullary electroreceptors. The primary afferent fibres from each class of electroreceptors terminate in a separate central region. Thus, the mormyrid electrosensory system has three anatomically and functionally distinct subsystems. This review describes the sensory coding and initial processing in each of the three subsystems, with an emphasis on the Knollenorgan and Mormyromast subsystems. The Knollenorgan subsystem is specialized for the measurement of temporal information but appears to ignore both intensity and spatial information. In contrast, the Mormyromast subsystem is specialized for the measurement of both intensity and spatial information. The morphological and physiological characteristics of the primary afferents and their central projection regions are quite different for the two subsystems and reflect the type of information which the subsystems preserve. This review also describes the electric organ corollary discharge (EOCD) effects which are present in the central projection regions of each of the three electrosensory subsystems. These EOCD effects are driven by the motor command that drives the electric organ to discharge. The EOCD effects are different in each of the three subsystems and these differences reflect differences in both the pattern and significance of the sensory information that is evoked by the fish's own electric organ discharge. Some of the EOCD effects are invariant, whereas others are plastic and depend on previous afferent input. The mormyrid work is placed within two general contexts: (a) the measurement of time and intensity in sensory systems, and (b) the various roles of motor command (efferent) signals and self-induced sensory (reafferent) signals in sensorimotor systems.

Motor corollary discharge activity and sensory responses related to ventilation in the skate vestibulolateral cerebellum: implications for electrosensory processing

1996 ◽  
Vol 199 (3) ◽  
pp. 673-681 ◽  
Author(s):  
G Hjelmstad ◽  
G Parks ◽  
D Bodznick
Keyword(s):  
Noise Cancellation ◽  
Second Order ◽  
Corollary Discharge ◽  
Parallel Fiber ◽  
Large Percentage ◽  
Principal Function ◽  
Raja Erinacea ◽  
Dorsal Nucleus ◽  
Sensory Responses ◽  
Electrosensory Processing

The dorsal granular ridge (DGR) of the elasmobranch vestibulolateral cerebellum is the source of a parallel fiber projection to the electrosensory dorsal nucleus. We report that the DGR in Raja erinacea contains a large percentage of units with activity modulated by the animal's own ventilation. These include propriosensory and electrosensory units, responding to either ventilatory movements or the resulting electroreceptive reafference, and an additional population of units in which activity is phase-locked to the ventilatory motor commands even in animals paralyzed to block all ventilatory movements. A principal function of processing in the dorsal nucleus is the elimination of ventilatory noise in second-order electrosensory neurons. The existence of these ventilatory motor corollary discharge units, along with other DGR units responsive to ventilatory movements, suggests that the parallel fiber projection is involved in the noise cancellation mechanisms.

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