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Title Page

Brains: How They Seem to Work

Pictures of the Mind: What the New Neuroscience Tells Us About Who We Are

The Root of Thought: Unlocking Glia—The Brain Cell That Will Help Us Sharpen Our Wits, Heal Injury, and Treat Brain Disease

The Cerebellum: Brain for an Implicit Self

1. Neuronal Circuitry: The Key to Unlocking the Brain

2. Traditional Views of the Cerebellum

3. The Cerebellum as a Neuronal Machine

4. Input and Output Pathways in the Cerebellar Cortex

5. Inhibitory Interneurons and Glial Cells in the Cerebellar Cortex

6. Pre- and Post-Cerebellar Cortex Neurons

7. Conjunctive Long-Term Depression (LTD)

8. Multiplicity and Persistency of Synaptic Plasticity

9. Network Models

10. Ocular Reflexes

10-1. Introduction

10-2. The Vestibuloocular Reflex (VOR)

10-3. VOR Adaptation and the Flocculus

10-4. Neuronal circuit for VOR adaptation

10-5. Vestibular Compensation

10-6. Optokinetic Eye-Movement Response (OKR)

10-7. The Ocular Following Response (OFR)

10-8. Integrated Control of Ocular Reflexes by the Cerebellum

10-9. Saccadic Eye Movement

10-10. Summary

11. Somatic and Autonomic Reflexes

12. Adaptive Control System Models

13. Voluntary Motor Control

14. Voluntary Eye Movement

15. Internal Models for Voluntary Motor Control

16. Motor Actions and Tool Use

17. Cognitive Functions

18. Concluding Thoughts

References

Index

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10-10. Summary

Neuronal circuits for the four types of ocular reflex (VOR, OKR, OFR, and saccades) have been dissected in terms of both their structure and function. In addition, the roles and mechanisms of the cerebellum in their elaboration have been studied in detail. The findings to this point provide a firm basis for clarifying several adaptive control mechanisms of the cerebellum in Chapter 12.

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