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Distributed cerebellar plasticity implements adaptable gain control (Garrido et al., 2013)

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We tested the role of plasticity distributed over multiple synaptic sites (Hansel et al., 2001; Gao et al., 2012) by generating an analog cerebellar model embedded into a control loop connected to a robotic simulator. The robot used a three-joint arm and performed repetitive fast manipulations with different masses along an 8-shape trajectory. In accordance with biological evidence, the cerebellum model was endowed with both LTD and LTP at the PF-PC, MF-DCN and PC-DCN synapses. This resulted in a network scheme whose effectiveness was extended considerably compared to one including just PF-PC synaptic plasticity. Indeed, the system including distributed plasticity reliably self-adapted to manipulate different masses and to learn the arm-object dynamics over a time course that included fast learning and consolidation, along the lines of what has been observed in behavioral tests. In particular, PF-PC plasticity operated as a time correlator between the actual input state and the system error, while MF-DCN and PC-DCN plasticity played a key role in generating the gain controller. This model suggests that distributed synaptic plasticity allows generation of the complex learning properties of the cerebellum.
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1 . Garrido JA, Luque NR, D'Angelo E, Ros E (2013) Distributed cerebellar plasticity implements adaptable gain control in a manipulation task: a closed-loop robotic simulation Front. Neural Circuits 7:159:1-20 [PubMed]

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Model Type:	Realistic Network;
Brain Region(s)/Organism:	Cerebellum;
Cell Type(s):	Cerebellum deep nucleus neuron;
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Simulation Environment:	C or C++ program; MATLAB; Simulink;
Model Concept(s):	Long-term Synaptic Plasticity;
Implementer(s):	Garrido, Jesus A [jesus.garrido at unipv.it]; Luque, Niceto R. [nluque at ugr.es];

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