Nature Communications (Nov 2021)

Mid-lateral cerebellar complex spikes encode multiple independent reward-related signals during reinforcement learning

  • Naveen Sendhilnathan,
  • Anna Ipata,
  • Michael E. Goldberg

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-26338-0
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 12, no. 1
pp. 1 – 10

Abstract

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The role of complex spikes in reinforcement learning is still unclear. Here, the authors show that complex spikes carry multiple context based, cell type specific and learning dependent signals that are independent of changes in any motor kinematics and unlikely to instruct the concurrent simple spike activity during reinforcement learning.