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

[Bryan Tripp]

Hi everyone,

I forgot to mention that, as usual, grad students are invited to lunch at
11:30. Please meet at E7 6339. Nat Vaidyanathan is organizing lunch (
nvaidyan at uwaterloo.ca).

Bryan

On Mon, May 13, 2019 at 4:56 PM Bryan Tripp <bptripp at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi everyone,
>
> Just a reminder about the talk tomorrow. Also please note the room change.
> The talk will be in E5 6111.
>
> 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 conditioning, focusing on two unpublished experiments that challenge this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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