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Open AccessEffects of working memory load and CS-US intervals on delay eyeblink conditioning
Eyeblink conditioning is used in many species to study motor learning and make inferences about cerebellar function. However, the discrepancies in performance between humans and other species combined with evi...
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Purkinje Neurons During Eye Blink Conditioning and New Mechanisms of Cerebellar Learning and Timing
During eyeblink conditioning, Purkinje cells that control blinking develop an inhibitory response to the conditional stimulus. This conditional response (CR) in the Purkinje cell shows a number of striking sim...
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Timing in Purkinje Cells and a Novel Learning Mechanism
During eyeblink conditioning, Purkinje cells that control the eyelid learn to respond with a pause in simple spike firing to the conditional stimulus. This conditional pause response (CR) in the Purkinje cell ...
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Living Reference Work Entry In depth
Purkinje Neurons During Eye Blink Conditioning and New Mechanisms of Cerebellar Learning and Timing
During eyeblink conditioning, Purkinje cells that control blinking develop an inhibitory response to the conditional stimulus. This conditional response (CR) in the Purkinje cell shows a number of striking sim...
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Open AccessAbsence of Parallel Fibre to Purkinje Cell LTD During Eyeblink Conditioning
Long-term depression (LTD) of parallel fibre/Purkinje cell synapses has been the favoured explanation for cerebellar motor learning such as classical eyeblink conditioning. Previous evidence against this inter...
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Open AccessLearning and Timing of Voluntary Blink Responses Match Eyeblink Conditioning
Can humans produce well-timed blink responses to a neutral stimulus voluntarily, without receiving any blink-eliciting, unconditional, stimulus? And if they can, to what degree does classical eyeblink conditio...
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Open AccessAre Purkinje Cell Pauses Drivers of Classically Conditioned Blink Responses?
Several lines of evidence show that classical or Pavlovian conditioning of blink responses depends on the cerebellum. Recordings from cerebellar Purkinje cells that control the eyelid and the conditioned blink...
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Learning Stimulus Intervals—Adaptive Timing of Conditioned Purkinje Cell Responses
Classical conditioning of motor responses, such as the eyeblink response, is an experimental model of associative learning and of adaptive timing of movements. A conditioned blink will have its maximum amplitu...
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Simple and Complex Spike Firing Patterns in Purkinje Cells During Classical Conditioning
Classical blink conditioning is known to depend critically on the cerebellum and the relevant circuitry is gradually being unravelled. Several lines of evidence support the theory that the conditioned stimulus...
