[CTN] CTN seminar: Javier Medina (Baylor): Tues May 14, 3:30, E5 6111

[Bryan Tripp]

Hi everyone,

Please note the following room change: the talk will be in E5 6111 rather
than 2004.

Bryan


On Fri, May 3, 2019 at 3:56 PM Bryan Tripp <bptripp at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi everyone,
>
> We have one final talk this year, details below. Hope to see you there.
>
> Bryan
>
>
> A NEW NETWORK ARCHITECTURE FOR SUPERVISED LEARNING IN THE CEREBELLUM
> Javier F Medina, Baylor College of Medicine
>
> The cerebellum is often described as a neural machine for supervised
> learning. Its network architecture consists of anatomically segregated
> learning modules, which are thought to be specialized for distinct
> functions defined by the error-related information received via the
> climbing fiber input, and by the few individual muscles each module is able
> to control. My talk will present our recent work on mouse eyeblink
> conditioning, focusing on two unpublished experiments that challenge this
> classic view about the organization of the cerebellum. First, I will
> describe a new recurrent circuit that allows some Purkinje cells in the
> cerebellar cortex to learn in the absence of error-related information in
> their climbing fiber input. Second, I will show that the output of a single
> cerebellar module can be used to control a complex motor synergy that
> requires coordination of multiple muscles. Altogether, the results suggest
> a new organizational framework for understanding what the cerebellum
> learns, and how.
>
>
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