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This chapter addresses the possibility that there is a precerebellar connection between the two main inputs to the cerebellum, the mossy (MF) and the climbing fiber (CF) system. The idea that both afferent systems could be interconnected before their entrance into the cerebellum came to us as we analyzed the results of extracellular recordings of Purkinje cells (PC), especially the behavior of their two different spikes, the complex spike (CS) and the simple spike (SS), and their relationship in two different preparations: the decerebrate cat and the awake Rhesus monkey.
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Rubia, F.J. (1992). A Possible Connection Between the Mossy and Climbing Fiber Systems at Precerebellar Level. In: Llinás, R., Sotelo, C. (eds) The Cerebellum Revisited. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-2840-0_12
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