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eNeuro ◽  
2021 ◽  
pp. ENEURO.0232-20.2020
Author(s):  
Matan Cain ◽  
Yehudit Botschko ◽  
Mati Joshua

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Matan Cain ◽  
Mati Joshua

AbstractMotor adaptation is commonly thought to be a trial-and-error process in which accuracy of movement improves with repetition of behavior. We challenged this view by testing whether erroneous movements are necessary for motor adaptation. In the eye movement system, the association between motor command and errors can be disentangled, since errors in the predicted stimulus trajectory can be perceived even without movements. We modified a smooth pursuit eye movement adaptation paradigm in which monkeys learn to make an eye movement that predicts an upcoming change in target direction. We trained monkeys to fixate on a target while covertly, an additional target initially moved in one direction and then changed direction after 250 ms. Monkeys showed a learned response to infrequent probe trials in which they were instructed to follow the moving target. Further experiments confirmed that probing learning or residual eye movement during fixation did not drive learning. These results show that movement is not necessary for motor adaptation and provide an animal model for studying how passive learning is implemented. The standard model assumes that the interaction between movement and error signals in the cerebellum underlies adaptive learning. Our results indicate that either sensory inputs are sufficient for driving learning in the cerebellum or that learning is implemented partly outside the cerebellum.


2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Niceto R. Luque ◽  
Francisco Naveros ◽  
Richard R. Carrillo ◽  
Eduardo Ros ◽  
Angelo Arleo

AbstractCerebellar Purkinje cells mediate accurate eye movement coordination. However, it remains unclear how oculomotor adaptation depends on the interplay between the characteristic Purkinje cell response patterns, namely tonic, bursting, and spike pauses. Here, a spiking cerebellar model assesses the role of Purkinje cell firing patterns in vestibular ocular reflex (VOR) adaptation. The model captures the cerebellar microcircuit properties and it incorporates spike-based synaptic plasticity at multiple cerebellar sites. A detailed Purkinje cell model reproduces the three spike-firing patterns that are shown to regulate the cerebellar output. Our results suggest that pauses following Purkinje complex spikes (bursts) encode transient disinhibition of targeted medial vestibular nuclei, critically gating the vestibular signals conveyed by mossy fibres. This gating mechanism accounts for early and coarse VOR acquisition, prior to the late reflex consolidation. In addition, properly timed and sized Purkinje cell bursts allow the ratio between long-term depression and potentiation (LTD/LTP) to be finely shaped at mossy fibre-medial vestibular nuclei synapses, which optimises VOR consolidation. Tonic Purkinje cell firing maintains the consolidated VOR through time. Importantly, pauses are crucial to facilitate VOR phase-reversal learning, by reshaping previously learnt synaptic weight distributions. Altogether, these results predict that Purkinje spike burst-pause dynamics are instrumental to VOR learning and reversal adaptation.Author SummaryCerebellar Purkinje cells regulate accurate eye movement coordination. However, it remains unclear how cerebellar-dependent oculomotor adaptation depends on the interplay between Purkinje cell characteristic response patterns: tonic, high-frequency bursting, and post-complex spike pauses. We explore the role of Purkinje spike burst-pause dynamics in VOR adaptation. A biophysical model of Purkinje cell is at the core of a spiking network model, which captures the cerebellar microcircuit properties and incorporates spike-based synaptic plasticity mechanisms at different cerebellar sites. We show that Purkinje spike burst-pause dynamics are critical for (1) gating the vestibular-motor response association during VOR acquisition; (2) mediating the LTD/LTP balance for VOR consolidation; (3) reshaping synaptic efficacy distributions for VOR phase-reversal adaptation; (4) explaining the reversal VOR gain discontinuities during sleeping.


Author(s):  
Muriel T. N. Panouillères ◽  
Valerie Gaveau ◽  
Jeremy Debatisse ◽  
Patricia Jacquin ◽  
Marie LeBlond ◽  
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Joan Duprez ◽  
Jean-François Houvenaghel ◽  
Florian Naudet ◽  
Thibaut Dondaine ◽  
Manon Auffret ◽  
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Author(s):  
Ouazna Habchi ◽  
Elodie Rey ◽  
Romain Mathieu ◽  
Christian Urquizar ◽  
Alessandro Farnè ◽  
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2006 ◽  
Vol 47 (4) ◽  
pp. 1439 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ange´lica Pe´rez Fornos ◽  
Jo¨rg Sommerhalder ◽  
Benjamin Rappaz ◽  
Marco Pelizzone ◽  
Avinoam B. Safran

1997 ◽  
Vol 10 (4) ◽  
pp. 305-322 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bruce Bridgeman ◽  
Michael J. Montegut ◽  
Jeff Sykes

SIMULATION ◽  
1992 ◽  
Vol 59 (1) ◽  
pp. 37-43 ◽  
Author(s):  
James H. Bertera

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