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Cerebellar Output: Multiple Maps and Modes of Control in Movement Coordination

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The Cerebellum Revisited

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For the scientist, one of the chief goals in cerebellar research has been to find physiological meaning in the function of the anatomical circuitry. Ramón y Cajal, in providing many of the anatomical details of the circuitry, did not hesitate to speculate on its function. Since then, elucidation of the synaptic actions of the different neurons forming those circuits has brought a functional explanation closer to hand (Eccles et al., 1967; Llinás, 1981). Yet there has remained the technical problem of relating the actions of the neural circuitry to the sphere of activity that it undoubtedly principally controls, bodily posture and movement.

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Thach, W.T., Kane, S.A., Mink, J.W., Goodkin, H.P. (1992). Cerebellar Output: Multiple Maps and Modes of Control in Movement Coordination. In: Llinás, R., Sotelo, C. (eds) The Cerebellum Revisited. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-2840-0_15

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