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Cerebellar involvement in movement timing on a variety of timescales

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  30 August 2019

Jeffrey S. Grethe
Affiliation:
Program for Neural, Informational, and Behavioral Sciences, University of Southern California, Los Angeles CA 90089-2520 grethe@neuro.usc.eduthompson@neuro.usc.edu
Richard F. Thompson
Affiliation:
Program for Neural, Informational, and Behavioral Sciences, University of Southern California, Los Angeles CA 90089-2520 grethe@neuro.usc.eduthompson@neuro.usc.edu

Abstract

The cerebellum has been hypothesized to play a role in a variety of movement timing tasks that involve the processing of temporal information on a variety of timescales. Braitenberg, Heck & Sultan propose a new theory of cerebellar function that is able to account for movement timing on the order of a couple of hundred milliseconds. However, this theory does not account for the rôle the cerebellum plays in the acquisition and retention of adaptively timed discrete movements that are on the order of 200 to 1000 milliseconds, and therefore does not account for the entire temporal range of cerebellar dependent processing.

Type
Open Peer Commentary
Copyright
1997 Cambridge University Press

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