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The cerebellum and timing: Lessons from mormyrids

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  30 August 2019

J. Meek
J. Meek
Affiliation:
Department of Anatomy and Embryology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Nijmegen, 6500 HB Nijmegen, The Netherlandsj.meek@anat.kun.nl
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Abstract

Mormyrid teleosts have Purkinje cells with palisade dendrites, which probably represent coincidence detectors of parallel fiber activity. Their existence strongly supports the ideas of Braitenberg et al. on cerebellar function. However, the organization of mormyrid granule cells and parallel fibers suggests that a key to cerebellar function is not in interactions within one wave, but between two opposite tidal waves.

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Open Peer Commentary
Information
Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 20 , Issue 2 , June 1997 , pp. 258
Copyright
1997 Cambridge University Press

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