Newly discovered role for climbing fibers: Conveying a sensory snapshot to the cerebellum

(Max Planck Florida Institute for Neuroscience) Though there is a wealth knowledge supporting the idea that sensory cues benefit motor learning, the precise brain circuitry and mechanisms tying these two together has been debated in recent years. Shedding new light on this topic, a paper in Neuron from the lab of Dr. Jason Christie at the Max Planck Florida Institute for Neuroscience, has revealed that a special input pathway into the cerebellum seems to hold the key to coding sensory information.
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