{"title":"Experimental verification of Marr-Albus' plasticity assumption for the cerebellum.","authors":"M Ito","doi":"","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Marr-Albus model of the cerebellum is based on the assumption that parallel fiber-Purkinje cell synapses are plastically modifiable under influences of conjunctive activation of a climbing fiber and a mossy fiber on the same Purkinje cell. This article introduces a positive support for this assumption derived from the recent experiment by Ito. Sakurai and Tongroach on rabbit flocculus. Possible reasons why the experimental verification of Marr-Albus' assumption has been so difficult are considered, and applicability of Marr-Albus model of the cerebellum to problems of motor learning is discussed.</p>","PeriodicalId":7056,"journal":{"name":"Acta biologica Academiae Scientiarum Hungaricae","volume":"33 2-3","pages":"189-99"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"1982-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Acta biologica Academiae Scientiarum Hungaricae","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Marr-Albus model of the cerebellum is based on the assumption that parallel fiber-Purkinje cell synapses are plastically modifiable under influences of conjunctive activation of a climbing fiber and a mossy fiber on the same Purkinje cell. This article introduces a positive support for this assumption derived from the recent experiment by Ito. Sakurai and Tongroach on rabbit flocculus. Possible reasons why the experimental verification of Marr-Albus' assumption has been so difficult are considered, and applicability of Marr-Albus model of the cerebellum to problems of motor learning is discussed.